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by ifdefdebug 3930 days ago
Just up voted this to balance down votes. It's a shame to down vote something just because you dislike an opinion.
2 comments

Or, you know, it's being downvoted for blatant falsehoods like:

"Today's nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe. Most that are in operation depend on active cooling systems to prevent a meltdown."

80% of the world's nuclear fleet are in fact light water reactors - like Fukushima - which require continuous cooling and a constant source of power.

Even the latest passive safety proposals like liquid fluoride thorium reactors don't conclusively solve the fundamental problem of overheating after a cooling system failure [1].

[1] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/6/not-so-fa...

Only 15 plants in operation have gen-3 passive cooling features and these systems are hardly fail safe.

http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...

Downvotes are often attached to inconvenient truths.

The safety of nuclear power is based mainly on wishful thinking. It's the classic folly of chasing short-term cost savings and ignoring long-tail risks.