Just a quick update tonight, a pointer to a post by ampontan regarding a couple of surveys recently conducted into nuclear power. The first survey from the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 4th was conducted between the 1st and 3rd of April 2011, and found that 46% supported continuing with the current level of nuclear power generation, 29% were for reducing, and 12% for the complete elimination of nuclear power.
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#1 by Mike in Tokyo Rogers on April 14, 2011 - 9:42 am
Accidents happen. The worst thing that could happen to this country is losing cheap clean energy. If the government would get our of the way, companies could have built much safer nuclear power plants and we wouldn’t be running these 40-year-old dangerous dinosaurs.
Would you want to fly in a 40-year-old airplane? Of course not.
One hundred years of coal and oil burning show us the ravages those have on the environment and our health. People see the writing on the wall: progress towards 100% safe nuclear power plants… Solar panels and wind turbines are great for powering transistor radios but they’ll never produce enough power to run, say, train lines and steel factories.