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[hellody]

I think yoru_yume raised a very good question  in her post about how people are using the disaster situation in Japan to get on their soapbox about "teh evils of nuclear power".

Unfortunately the nuclear accident seems to have overshadowed reports on the real and immediate human tragedy - the tsunami and the earthquake.

Especially here in France, media -and

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[amamiya_rin]

ah i think we can't just go save power drastically.. i mean we household can but factory had it difficult, if they can save power they'll did it in the first place :(

my best, while continuing using nuclear plant that already built, should also rapidly built green energy source a long the way..
bit too idealistic but can't think of any other way :(

[hellody]

Indeed, power save is a HUGE issue...because it also questions our way of leaving and consuming in the so-called "developped contry".
Our gouvernments are going all schyzophrene : asking us to save energy and to reduce our waste/garbage production on the one hand and giving us inventives to consume more and more on the other hand (because it's good for the economy).
As long as we continue to live that way (I shop therefore I am : shopping has turned into a lifestyle, we consume as leisure and a way to pass time) we won't be able to change power demand.

True, there are also green energy source, but I think we have to do both :

1. Use natural and renewable energy sources
2. Reduce consumption and therefore CHANGE PEOPLE'S MIND

Well, now who's being the idealist ;)

[amamiya_rin]

LoL
yeah... government want us to spend more money, but they didn't want us to go broke and poor.. contradiction XD
Yup, we use energy so much more than some two-three hundred years ago.. *sigh*

When talking about green, anybody always come off as idealist RoFl

[hellody]

Still a long way to go...
GO GREEN PAWA!
^_^

[shadow_piper]

I think that nuclear power is, in general, pretty safe.Problems arise when there are huge accidents like this that damage the systems and the back-up systems. I live in California, where we have semi-regular earthquakes because we lie on the "Pacific Ring of Fire" (like Japan, but they get it worse). Sometimes I worry, because some dumbass decided to build a nuclear reactor in a place where there are so many fault lines. But at the same time, it's pretty hard to predict when a disaster of that kind of magnitude will come. 99% of the time, that location wouldn't matter.

Of course, I would prefer green energy like solar panels, wind turbines, and water power, but the transition seems to be slow. ):

[hellody]

Yeah I agree, nulear power is pretty safe...but there are some places on earth where we should really avoid to build the plants, such as subduction zones and fault lines for instance.
From what I read, it's not as much the eartquake than the Tsunami that damages the cooling system of the reactors.
But you know, shit happens...and it's rather unpredictible shit as you said.
My guess is we have to find other options than the nuclear one, but with our level of energy consumption, it may take a long time...because natural/renewable energy production is just too scarce.