Old Rocks
Diamond Member
The only problems I have with nuclear are expense and siting. Nuclear is still very expensive.
Siting is what created the disaster at Fukashima. Had they consulted a geologist, he would simply have pointed to stones set in the hills centuries ago that said "do not build below this level". That fault had let go and created tsunamais many times, the reactors should never have been that low.
Here in the US, I question some of the siting in the Mississippi River Valley. Had the upper dam on the Missouri let go last summer, would those reactors been capable of a safe shutdown? When dealing with a technology where even one failure is catastrophic, one must always keep Murphy's Laws in mind.
Siting is what created the disaster at Fukashima. Had they consulted a geologist, he would simply have pointed to stones set in the hills centuries ago that said "do not build below this level". That fault had let go and created tsunamais many times, the reactors should never have been that low.
Here in the US, I question some of the siting in the Mississippi River Valley. Had the upper dam on the Missouri let go last summer, would those reactors been capable of a safe shutdown? When dealing with a technology where even one failure is catastrophic, one must always keep Murphy's Laws in mind.