Fukushima Hasn't Gone Away

This will bankrupt the country. It will be another 20 years before Japan can heal this wound.

I do feel sorry for the Japanese people and their loses. These are hard lessons learned for the Nuclear Industries, particularly, not to install the primary back-up systems at or below ground level in and around areas of potential tsunami wave actions. These accidents have give the Anti-Nuclear Activist a brand new Howitzer for the ammo they already had. And as far as TEPCO, they are just like any other large Corporation, in trying to minimize an accident and cut financial loses afterwards. Pacific Gas and Electric did the same thing here in California, after the San Bruno gas pipe line explosion. For some unknown reason, they couldn't find the pipe line inspection records

I still stand firm in that I'd rather live next door to a Nuke than a (H²S)Geothermal field or below a Hydro-Electric Dam. DJ

Yeah, just as a general good idea, you'd want to put the backups maybe 20 feet up and the cooling pool in the ground. But, backwards? The sad part is these were very old BWR units that should have been up for retirement. Now the bad feelings will spill over to the newer (presumably) safer PWR units. Toshiba-Westinghouse just rolled out a new design for a low power "neighborhood" reactor where you could have one maybe every few miles. TEPCO probably put the kibosh on that idea, though I'm not so keen on it myself. (However, I live less than 500 m downwind of a fairly potent chemical plant - go figure!)

I agree. I would still rather live next to a nuclear reactor than down wind of a coal fired power plant.

GA from me Lehman. WOW, I never heard anything about a Dam Break! I guess that just affirms my beliefs about living around any damn Dams. I've seen the aftermath of a dam break and it's right up there with hydraulic mining. After 160 years you can still see the devastation hydraulic mining had done in the Sierra Nevada's. And you don't even want to get me going on Geo-thermal generation, see my comments about it. Unless you have spent at least one day, at or in a Geo-thermal generation field/ powerplant(s), you would not believe me, about the pollution that comes out of the ground! Some power plants I've been in, required full hazmat suits w/full face Scott's air packs, And then others, I was not allowed because I was considered non essential personnel, which didn't hurt my feelings one bit! What's in the bottom of the wells really need to stay at the bottom of the well. Then the 'All Green PV cells' and the pollution they create during production process. and you don't hear anything about the pollution that's generated manufacturing the " Green Hi-tech battery cells" for the "Green Hybrid Vehicles", which in it self, is adding to the pollution going into the environment.

I'll take a Nuke any day.