We’ve had this same discussion on this site over and over since 2016.
Not true. The 1993 Hokkaido earthquake had waves reaching 31 meters. The 2011 one near Fukishima only had waves reaching 10 meters.
Just a stone throw away in Alaska, tsunami once reached 524 meters.
These things are going to happen, and plenty of these natural disasters would only get worse as climate change persists. To say because they rarely happens, so nuclear power plants do not have to put them into consideration is irresponsible.
Just from 1950 to now, Japan has had 3 tsunamis wit…
The engineers who built Fukushima thought a disaster like that would never happen in the first place. When you are building these power plants on a rock full of natural disasters, from tsunamis, to typhoons, to earthquakes, to volcano, whilst knowing that averting disaster requires nothing going wrong, you are basically kidding yourself by touting how safe a design is.
If safety is truly in the minds of nuclear proponents, they’d all be promoting thorium power planets instead of plutonium.
To illustrate how idiotic it was for KMT to push for resuming nuclear power plant 4, and banning food import from Japan at the same time, here’s a map (based on maps from thetruesize.com and www.comparea.org ) of the proposed food ban compared to Taiwan.
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Proposition 9 wants to ban food products (even if they weren’t grown there) from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Chiba, an area pretty much identical to the size of Taiwan. The yellow star marks the location of Fukushima Daii…
I’m just glad instead of rehashing this stuff for political gains during elections, we’ve moved on and hopefully time and energy will be spent on something useful.
They are expanding geo-thermal power at Qingshui and there are private companies exploring more sites. If you want to talk about clean and safe renewable energy that can provide baseload energy for our grid, why not get excited about that.