Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? (thebulletin.org)

Lasrick writes: Seth Baum, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that Japan should restart more of its nuclear reactors (the Sendai nuclear plant was restarted in August). The reason is simple, writes Baum: "Japan is now building 45 new coal power plants, but if it turned its nuclear power plants back on... it could cut coal consumption in half. And coal poses more health and climate change dangers than nuclear power."

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Re:Fukushima was WORTH IT

[MrKaos]

We only get worked up about nuclear disasters because they're so unusual.

No we don't. We get worked up about them because they go on for so long. Chernobyl, Fukushima are all disasters that are still occurring and will continue to affect the human race in ways we still don't fully comprehend long after everyone here is dead.