Japan on gas, coal power building spree to fill nuclear void

[kristopher]

27. You really don't see what you say, do you?

You wrote,

"The frequency of accidents speaks for itself. In terms of large scale accidents with offsite consequences in commercial nuclear power plants worldwide for the past 50+ years; we've had three; Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima."

Even after we apply the long list of qualifying modifiers you've used to trim a lot of relevant data from your sample we are still left with the fact that you are at least aware of the fact that reactor failures "with offsite consequences" are occurring about every 15 years with the present number of approx 400 reactors in the global fleet.

One meltdown event roughly every 15 years for a technology that could have required evacuation of the Kanto Plain, home to 40 million people and the financial/economic heart of Japan ... if the Wind had been out of the NE.

The Wind was out of the West and you think that makes it all honky dory.

Perhaps now is a good time to tell us again that you are "a scientist".