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Nuke industry vows: Japan’s crisis will make reactors even safer
Two days after the earthquake and tsunami pushed Japan into a nuclear emergency, the leading trade and lobbying group for the worldwide nuclear power industry has outlined its position on the future of nuclear energy: “When we fully understand the facts surrounding the event in Japan, we will use those insights to make nuclear energy even safer.”
The Nuclear Energy Institute posted 19 questions and answers on Sunday, apparently intended to reassure the public, the financial markets and legislators that “public support for nuclear power should not decline dramatically.”
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If we can make warp nacelles that can exceed warp 9 then we can make earthquake proof nuke reactors.
FloatingRock on March 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM
The reporters on NHK are ripping TEPCO a new one over the poor explanation of the latest explosion.
http://jibtv.com/program/fullscreen.aspx?page=0
The operators are being evacuated.
pedestrian on March 14, 2011 at 7:39 PM
How about combining Supercritical CO2 with an LFTR thorium reactor
BDU-33 on March 14, 2011 at 7:49 PM
I am sorry but that is a pretty idiotic statement. How the hell are they going to go back in time and change a reactor that was built in the 1960′s?
We don’t even need thorium. A modern reactor wouldn’t have had these problems. They don’t rely on outside electricity for water circulation.
What we need to do is build new generation 3 plants and get rid of the first generation plants.
crosspatch on March 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Thorium.
KMC1 on March 14, 2011 at 10:04 PM