Came across an article stating that Germans overwhelmingly voted to discontinue their nuclear plants in April of 2011.
What gives, is this simply the fear of accidents?
Also, on a related note, anyone else notice that nuclear energy has all of a sudden become super popular among NPCs and common folk?
"Something something the technology is better now so it's totally safe".
I'm still undecided, they may be safer, but things can still go to shit in ways that safety analysts fail to predict. In this day and age, a nuclear plant would have to be designed to withstand war, riots and (((terrorists))), not just natural phenomenon.
I think you are right and yet that only deepens the mystery. Fukushima only happened because of a tsunami. A very big tsunami. The Japanese screwed up because they didn't build the sea walls around Fukushima tall enough to protect the power plant from a very big (but not unprecedented) tsunami.
Then the Germans, err, what exactly? Tsunami from the Baltic swamping coastal nuclear power plants? The Fukushima accident didn't reveal any risk that the Germans had to worry about.
More than ever people are living in their own bubbles now.
Nobody understands the concept that industry takes lots and lots of power, because an average person has no clue what goes on outside of their bubble.
"I can totally handle a 6 hour blackout, why can't everybody?" kind of thing.
Just like the politicians that have probably never put gas in a car in their entire silver-spoon life saying that everyone should just get an electric car.
Many industries cannot handle blackouts and need MWs of electricity to keep running. An average person has no clue what that means and will vote however (((they))) tell them.
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Then the Germans, err, what exactly? Tsunami from the Baltic swamping coastal nuclear power plants? The Fukushima accident didn't reveal any risk that the Germans had to worry about.
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Nobody understands the concept that industry takes lots and lots of power, because an average person has no clue what goes on outside of their bubble.
"I can totally handle a 6 hour blackout, why can't everybody?" kind of thing.
Just like the politicians that have probably never put gas in a car in their entire silver-spoon life saying that everyone should just get an electric car.
Many industries cannot handle blackouts and need MWs of electricity to keep running. An average person has no clue what that means and will vote however (((they))) tell them.
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