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Previously on "UK nuclear support fades after Japan quake"
The outcome of a risk assessment grounded a aircraft earlier this year that would have otherwise been allowed to continue flying until an in flight shut occurred.
My goodness, they'd have been up there all day then if they had gone and taken off.
The outcome of a risk assessment grounded a aircraft earlier this year that would have otherwise been allowed to continue flying until an in flight shut down occurred.
We've ran out of space we now need to build houses way up in the mountains?
Turns out Tsunami was not the only force of nature I was thinking of; what about man? What if a terrorist targeted a reactor with an explosive? Contamination could spread over a wide area. 5 reactors in the south of England, wait for the right wind conditions and London is a ghost town.
If it's made by man it is fallible. I don't know of any other MIP where the outcome can be so devastating.
Even when the tulipe hits the fan on that scale, nobody is killed or seriously injured.
Turns out Tsunami was not the only force of nature I was thinking of; what about man? What if a terrorist targeted a reactor with an explosive? Contamination could spread over a wide area. 5 reactors in the south of England, wait for the right wind conditions and London is a ghost town.
Couldn't agree more and those designs were >40 years old.
WFBS
Good to see that the more level-headed posters are all drawing the same pragmatic conclusions. Now if we can just settle the panicky Sun-reading ones down somehow.
What would be the effect of a major accident at a coal fired power station? Would you be able to build houses and schools on the land afterwards?
And hydro-electric means you lose the land straight away.
Fukushima was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes on record, followed by a huge tsunami that devastated cities and killed 20,000 people, which in disaster stakes is as bad as it gets. And what happened? Nobody died, in fact none of the workers and certainly none of the public received any significant amount of radiation other than the two workers who had some minor burns from contaminated water.
Even when the tulipe hits the fan on that scale, nobody is killed or seriously injured. Can any other major industrial processes claim to be that safe? It's crazy that people are more scared of nuclear power after Fukushima; they should be reassured by what happened.
Couldn't agree more and those designs were >40 years old.
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