Sorry pal. Nuclear power is dead. Deader then dead. We knew that over a month ago when the head executive for the worlds largest nuclear power company (French) stated that nuclear power might may a come back in 10-20 years. That horse is dead Jim and you wont win any friends flogging it any more.
Actually, if you do a bit more reading..TEPCO had indicated that the plant may have been compromised before the tsunami.
Given their history, it is quite possible their safety measures..or lack thereof... contributed to this mess.
The issue is that there is a chunk of land uninhabitable for at least 30 years if things work out.If they don’t give it 50 years to a century for there to be people living there again.
The issue is that supposedly smarter conservatives who buy into all the worst hype put out by the anti-nuclear crowd. They think that a nuclear accident at one of the oldest-type reactors sustaining a near-record earthquake and a record tsunami, along with mismanagement and lack of good crisis response, should mean that all nuclear power is dead.
One wonders, given that so far nobody has been killed by radiation, whether the real argument is that nobody should live near a fault line or near a shore, given that while the nuclear reactor hasn’t killed anybody yet, the building of houses in the region cost over 20,000 people their lives, and hundreds of thousands of people their livelyhoods.