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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]madokie
(51,076 posts)1. Its not a matter of If
its a matter of when. The last thing we need is for one of our own nuclear power plants to have a mishap and require cordoning off of a section of one of our major cities. Many of them are built near large metropolitan areas.
When it comes to nuclear power plant accidents it matters not why or what, it only matters that it happened. If Fukushima hasn't shown us anything else its shown us that once things go wrong its difficult to correct or deal with, however you want to put it.
Pripyat Russia is a ghost town, city if you will.
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Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]
kristopher
Jan 2014
OP
By that standard MLK, Ghandi, Thoreau, John Lewis, Bill McKibben, Nelson Mandela,
Iterate
Jan 2014
#23
Not surprised you'd call that (too short) list a "rogues gallery" and hold them "in EXTREME disdain"
Iterate
Jan 2014
#30
Martin Luther King protested using Civil Disobediance, do you think he shouldn't have?
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#36
Nuclear power justifies extending use of deadly force authority to rent-a-cops?
kristopher
Feb 2014
#40
Well, all of our energy systems are vulnerable--if not to people trying to breach
MADem
Mar 2014
#46