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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It's trendy for sure. But remember the Fukushima disaster in 2011 - a single earthquake and resulting tsunami could destroy the plant, AND risk a nuclear explosion, and radioactivity resulting in massive deaths and disease in anyone within a few miles of the fallout. That basically puts the entire west coast out of the running for placement.
As for the east coast, whose back yard do you want to bury the waste in? Because - where there is nuclear energy, there is nuclear waste. And it has to be put somewhere.
Maybe somewhere in the Sahara desert - but that'd be pointless, since a power plant has to be in a reasonable distance to the homes and businesses it's powering.
So these are the reasons why it's not a popular option. I personally think nuclear energy could be amazing. But those particular risk make it a NIMBY option for me.
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What? Sorry but that sounds so 1960. Where have you been? We are farther in time from 1960 than 1960 was from 1900. Think about the that. France for instance, generates about 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear plants. I guess they figured it out in the last 60 plus years. As for where to put them, anywhere on the grid should work. The Hoover Dam was in the middle of nowhere at one time.