Blues Man
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Which is why we need to get rid of the old obsolete light water reactors and start using reactors that can't melt down, don't need to run at high pressure and don't need copious amounts of water for coolingNo one died because ot 3 Mile IslandFukushima, Chernobyl, 3 mile Island
3 reasons right there,
And if you took that attitude over such a small number of failures you would never get in a plane again or drive a car or have a propane tank in your home etc etc etc.
We have already designed reactors that cannot melt down, that don't need to run at pressures of hundreds of times atmosphere and that can use the waste from our obsolete LWRs as fuel. We have enough of that nuclear waste in storage to power the country for at least a century
France has had up to 80% of their electricity provided by nuclear power and no significant accidents
A fatal plane or car accident is not a threat to the planet. Fukushima literally could have eradiated the ocean. All it takes is one bad meltdown to potentially poison most of the world, that's all. Japan is right now seriously planning on releasing radioactive water from fukushima into the ocean after everything that has happened.