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Originally Posted by Vendot
Why? Because their Japanese?
End of the day nuclear power is fucked up..... I dont care how few incidents there have been over the decades, when it goes wrong it can go seriously wrong in my view and people can suffer an invisible hand of death.
If they cant find other good alternatives....
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Funny that you say they, because there are many countries that use nuclear power, not just the Japanese. And for Japan, it's a much smaller percentage than many other countries. The US generates more than 3 times what Japan does, and I hear France only uses nuclear power. There are about 30 countries that use nuclear-based power. Even your own UK. The UK produces only 1/4 of what Japan does, but honestly - does it matter? What happened in Japan can happen anywhere else, it just happened there. I just thought it would be interesting for everyone to see these lists, since this isn't really wide-spread knowledge.
For what it's worth, I got back from a month's vacation in Japan 3 weeks ago, and it is one of the most incredible countries I have ever been to. I really hope things work out quickly there.
By the way, here's a link showing which countries are using nuclear power:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/reactors.html