The nuclear question.
Japan is currently hosting the worst luck on the planet. Everyone is going insane over a meltdown that probably won't happen, and if it does will be nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. Take that Russians! Still, it's not a great scenario for them.
So when the ant-nuclear power politicians here decided to jump onto a natural disaster to promote their cause by comparing Japan to what could happen here, I was annoyed. It shows a total lack of perspective and is pure fear-mongering.
We don't live on a fault line, so we very, very rarely get earthquakes. Even so, it was the tsunami that caused the biggest problems by disabling the cooling system. If we build our power plants an hour away from any coastline, that will also never be a problem. Why are we looking at Japan for a comparison when we are much more likely to have a situation like they do in France, where there have been no issues at all with their many power plants.
Ok, so besides that, there is always the chance that something might happen, sure. Nuclear power has the potential to be chaotic to the population. The POTENTIAL. What about oil? One of the first things that blew up when the tsunami hit Japan was the massive oil refinery on the coast that burned ALL NIGHT LONG. Why didn't anyone jump on the "let's get serious on clean energy" bandwagon then?
I'm going to assume that it's now too late to ask for a serious debate about this issue.
So when the ant-nuclear power politicians here decided to jump onto a natural disaster to promote their cause by comparing Japan to what could happen here, I was annoyed. It shows a total lack of perspective and is pure fear-mongering.
We don't live on a fault line, so we very, very rarely get earthquakes. Even so, it was the tsunami that caused the biggest problems by disabling the cooling system. If we build our power plants an hour away from any coastline, that will also never be a problem. Why are we looking at Japan for a comparison when we are much more likely to have a situation like they do in France, where there have been no issues at all with their many power plants.
Ok, so besides that, there is always the chance that something might happen, sure. Nuclear power has the potential to be chaotic to the population. The POTENTIAL. What about oil? One of the first things that blew up when the tsunami hit Japan was the massive oil refinery on the coast that burned ALL NIGHT LONG. Why didn't anyone jump on the "let's get serious on clean energy" bandwagon then?
I'm going to assume that it's now too late to ask for a serious debate about this issue.