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		Symmetry on Oct 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to B... I'm not sure I'd recommend Japan give up nuclear. Their horrible track record just means that their nuclear plants are single order of magnitude safer than their coal plans, rather than the normal 2 or 3.

illumen on Oct 26, 2015 [–]

Coal is terrible, but it's not the only alternative. Nor is coal the cheapest alternative.

Symmetry on Oct 26, 2015 | [–]

Oil is also up there in the low single digit deaths per gigawatt-year and oil and coal are what Japan replaced all their nuclear power generation with after Fukushima.

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