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."

Comments

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.

Re:Climate change vs. Nuclear accident

[slashrio]

The problem with nuclear is that it is and always potentially will cause an apocalyptic event that maybe won't eradicate the cockroach, but possibly all human life.
Coal fired plants in my opinion do not have that possible outcome.
That's why in my opinion nuclear power should be completely abandoned.