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Merkel has pledged to speed Germany’s transition for nuclear to renewable energy. Several nuclear plants there were closed for inspection after the Fukushima disaster and it is doubtful they will re-open. I’m sure after ten or twenty years of squabbling and vicious political fighting the US will arrive at the same decision. The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is highly vulnerable to a tsunami The severity of the earthquake tsunami catastrophe that struck Japan last Friday is just now being absorbed, in bits and pieces of anecdotal commentary. The idea that they were able to rescue a man from the rooftop of his home some 15 km [...] Several countries are moving full speed ahead on next-gen nuclear reactors that can use reprocessed spent nuclear fuel. The US is not one of them, even though it has vast (and expensive to store) stockpiles of spent fuel being warehoused. Will nuclear energy be a major source of power in the coming decades? Many countries [...] |  | ||||
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