[gunsequalfreedom]

Yea, you heard that too? What am I to believe now...

Same as I did then.

These nukes are not safe.

[Terpfen]

These nukes are not safe.

Nuclear energy is safe when used properly. The issue at Fukushima-Daiichi was an old plant design without safeguards in the event of a natural disaster of the magnitude that struck it. If they had improved the automatic shutdown systems some time over the last 40 years or so, there wouldn’t be an issue right now.

Nuclear energy is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy available to humanity. It makes as much sense to get rid of nuclear power as it does to convert huge tracts of otherwise habitable land into low-efficiency solar or wind farms as the environuts want to do.

[justa-hairyape]

These nukes are not safe.

Had no idea that these old plants always had to have external power to them and that they would melt down if that power was lost and the generators were lost. How in the world could governments approve such a situation ? Especially considering we fought two world wars last century where power generation was routinely lost due to indiscriminate bombing.

[Mr. K]

These nuke plants are VERY safe- it is people who are stupid

If this place had more than 6 hours of battery backup this would have gone down in history as one of the greatest success stories of nuclear power in history- The place survived one of the biggest earthquakes in history AND THEN A TUSUNAMI!

...and it was still working as planned- until the batteries ran out.

If they had a weeks supply of battery power these people would have been heroes. Although the batteries were the last line of defense, no one thought about the tim it might take to get a backup deisel generator - and only planned for 6 hours of power