Be glad you don't live in Japan Friday

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Naturally the anti nuclear people are already using this as an example of why no more should be built... because burning fossil fuels are so much better I guess.

Chances are good that many if not all of them are nearing the end of their projected lifespan, and may have to be decomissioned after this.

We should be replacing that style of reactor/generator with newer models anyway.

But yeah you are right, the unthoughtful greens will be all "NO NUKES" about this, unwilling to face the fact that the "no nukes" path requires a massive dieback, just as much as the "burn all the fossil carbon" path.

Not that the nuclear path is all roses. There are no great options left to us after wasting the last 40 years in an amnesiac consumption frenzy.