On Jan 19, 7:48*am, bob haller wrote:
On Jan 19, 10:32*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:

bob haller wrote:
currently japan is doing ok with almost no nuke power plants in
operation

Not so much, unless you consider 17% price increases and industrial
slowdowns to be "doing ok".

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power price must go up to pay the costs of the meltdowns.

lets see whats now estimated to be a 50 year or longer clean up,
replace totally the fukhisma plant generating capacity, health issues,
both mental and physical for the residents.. relocation for a
generation or more a bunch of towns. compensate farmers for now
hazardous food, heck even gravel is radioactive, from quarries that
went ino new buildings that cant be lived in.

just think of what a mess like this would be like in new york, or
anywhere else.

most nuke plants in japan will have to be upgraded or decomisioned.
most near faults or sunmami areas......
Using thorium fuel and those AP-1000 kinds of simpler reactors that
are more robust and have 90% less to go wrong with them, plus
otherwise as near failsafe as humanly possible, would probably make
these new and improved clean energy providers almost too cheap to
meter (though also unable to provide plutonium and a few other nasty
elements that governments want us to keep paying for).

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