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In reply to the discussion: The Fukushima Effect [View all]FBaggins
(28,706 posts)Think anyone here is having a tough time understanding why that is?
Go ahead... tell us again how silly it is to think that scores of nuclear weapons exploding in the Pacific miraculously failed to create any "plumes" in the ocean.
The nuclear power industry is dying - And before Fukushima, just two years ago, it was coming back.
Really? You may have missed the news. It isn't "coming back" as strongly/quickly as it was pre-Fukushima, but there are LOTS of reactor projects in development around the world right now (and more in planning). You're nuts if you think it's "dying".
Only a tiny number of countries that previously had nuclear construction plans have changed them... but several countries have pushed right ahead. China, India, Russia, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Turkey. The UK is expected to announce in the next few weeks and Canada just approved new reactors... and of course five reactors are under construction here in the US (including one right down the road from you).
And no amount of spin is going to change any of that.