Posted on 08/27/2022 9:40:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government is backing the construction of new reactors for the first time since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. It will have to convince a skeptical public first, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Gearoid Reidy.
Just over a decade on from Fukushima, the northern Japanese region that became globally synonymous with the dangers of nuclear power, Tokyo seems ready to embrace atomic energy once more.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to push not just for the restart of operations including Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the largest nuclear power facility in the world — he’s also looking to reverse a decade of policy and mull the building of new nuclear plants. The country will also consider extending the lifespan of existing reactors beyond the current 60 years.
This has been coming: After scares earlier this year, Japan is facing another winter where electricity demand is expected to be right up against supply. The reality is dawning that it can’t oppose Russian energy, climate change and nuclear power all at once.
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Can the US learn to love nuclear power again after Three Mile Island?
Just build it above the Line of Sorrow.
does Godzilla love stomping trains?
Yeah, it's really a shame about all the people who died at 3 Mile Island.
Boiling water nuclear power is insanity. If you can’t flip an off switch and walk away from something within a few hours without having it blowup and contaminate everything for 100,000 years. That is what I call insanity. Not to mention the nuclear waste.
There are several new designs that meet those criteria.
There are even some that act as “Burners” to safely dispose of waste from the old type plants.
New nuclear plants in the US are inevitable, the question becomes will they be adopted in time to prevent our becoming a third world county first?
Country.
Yeah, the US third-world counties are what they used to rig the 2020 “election”.
Can’t let a couple coincidences lining up ruin nuclear power for the whole country. Earthquake causing a tsunami at high tide, swamping and clogging the outlets for the water cooling system. It wasn’t operator error, but the plant should have been shut down. Better off spending the time and money getting it back online than risk keeping it operating.
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That’s my concern. I thought that big lizard got upset every time the Japs started going nuclear?
“Can the US learn to love nuclear power again after Three Mile Island?”
More people have died installing solar panels than from nuclear power accidents.
The mortality rate from solar is 10 times that of nuclear.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html
Very good. That one came close to a Chernoble level event.
I’ll confess this here...
About 10 years ago, I developed a habit of watching the news from Tokyo at lunch (probably the late night news for them). They had a fifteen minute segment on Fukashima.
So I thought “Jesus Jones! When did that happen? It must have been ten years ago, and what, some folks got their basements damp?” Then I looked it up...
Nah, it was the third anniversary and 2,000+ dead.
So Japanese news isn’t high on my list of interests.
Well, they learned to love it after Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Regards,
I can't remember for sure, it may have been Dennis Prager, but I don't know that, and this person, who's done extensive public speaking, and asked people how many folks died from 3 Mile Island, and on average the consensus was 3,000 people.
Amazing.
Yes. Especially when they see how bad things are over in Europe as a result of foolishly making massive sacrifices to Gaia.
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