Originally Posted by Spikuh

Things are never this simple. Look at Chernobyl. Look more recently at Japan. The only thing most people see is that these events illustrate exactly why nuclear should never be tried. Chernobyl is a wasteland and will continue to be a wasteland and who knows how many people have died because of the radiation in Japan. These types of fallouts will always cause major concerns for people.

However, like I said earlier:



For example, and people please correct me if I am wrong beacuse I am going from memory, the Japanese reactors that failed and melted down were built and designed to stand up to a magnitude 6 earthquake. The one they experienced was a magnitude 9 and they didn't fail. It was not until their backup generators responsible for operating the cooling system (unwisely put in the basements) got flooded from the tsunami that the reactors blew up.

But how many people actually know that? How many people realize that the reactors themselves were mostly fine and would have faired much better had the backup generators been placed in an area that couldn't flood?

My point is a simple one, don't rely on others all the time, educate yourself.



If you think young people are the ones responsible for preventing the adoption of nuclear power in the US, you are sadly mistaken. Young people have nothing to do with this. I'm 25 and am a big proponent of nuclear. Especially Thorium.