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Go to US Google Maps and type in Nuclear power station. Note how many of the red dots are on coasts.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I certainly am still a strong supporter of nuclear power.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I could not answer that since it is far too vague and open. I don't see Chernobyl as a major catastrophe though.It would take a very large loss of live to change my mind though, far higher than in any nuclear power scenario I can currently imagine.Chernobyl was not as much a nuclear power failure as a human failure and we will always see those. We simply need to learn from them, and blaming it on nuclear power is only a sign that we did not really learn the lesson there.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

The US East Coast also faces an almost certain major Tsunami in the future. Check out Cumbre Vieja .

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

As is so often the case, the problem is not nuclear power itself but rather the implementation and supervision, as well as information and communication. The issues, risks (general and site specific), benefits, and considerations need to be debated, but also common knowledge; taught in ever school. For example, in the US we have nuclear generating stations built on top of know major active fault zones, ones in areas that can be subject to major tsunamis that have 30 foot tsunami walls, others without, we have nuclear power stations that get their cooling water through deep well systems into major aquifers.We have nuclear power stations in areas of major population concentrations but there has been little public discussion of issues like evacuation or citizen risks.We have also underfunded and emasculated the governmental oversight of the industry.The issue is not nuclear power itself, it's getting folk to invest in getting educated about the current status (aging US Nuclear Power Stations) as well as the risk/benefit possibilities.

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Hiroshima (population 1.6+ million ) and Nagasaki (population 450,000+ ) are also thriving communities today after events that were far more horrific than any possible nuclear plant accident.

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Of course that is a silly example but so far, sure.And I really doubt that nuclear power stations have killed anywhere near as many folk as dams have.

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The area of power production and distribution is one (of many) that IMHO should be highly regulated as a limited vested monopoly where profit is NOT based on revenue but rather a percentage of infrastructure investment.It's time to toss capitalism out of the energy field again.

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Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Did grass and trees grow back? And NO nuclear plant accident would be of the magnitude of those two events.And let's look at Chernobyl and Pripyat (the city). Grass, trees and animals have returned and almost no signs of mutation in plants or animals have been found. In addition the exclusionary zone has a radius of 19 miles and within that area the amount of contamination varies with only a small percentage of the zone showing major contamination.Kiev, only 60 miles or so from Chernobyl is still a functioning city last time I checked.

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The US had a system that served both the needs of the consumers and also provided a large part of the social safety net, but we decided to throw it away.In the US, Utilities (power, water, communications, sewer, etc) were granted limited monopolies for an area. Their coverage, services and rates were controlled and they were guaranteed a set rate of return on their investments in plant, service and infrastructure.That, the guaranteed rate of return, also made Utilities a very safe and secure investment, one that could provide a reasonable base for someones' retirement income.It was a win win situation for all.So we threw it away.

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But the areas that are actually contaminated are only a very small percentage of the exclusionary zone. The town itself was only existed to house the on site people that worked at Chernobyl and at the abandoned Soviet Area over the horizon radar facility.There are lots of abandoned towns, many for environmental reasons, many like Pripyat for economic reasons.Look at Centralia, PA. For long term contamination, look at the list of US Superfund sites.

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You can have a picnic there. There are still thousands that work there every day. There are even guided tours of the area. And as I pointed out to you, it is only some small locations within the exclusionary zone that are still showing contamination.

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I can, of course, see avoiding sushi, it is after all just bait, but why avoid either Fukashima or Bikini?The 1996 study on Bikini included the following:

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"It is safe to walk on all of the islands...The Advisory Group reaffirmed: although the residual radioactivity on islands in Bikini Atoll is still higher than on other atolls in the Marshall islands, it is not hazardous to health at the levels measured. Indeed, there are many places in the world where people have been living for generations with higher levels of radioactivity from natural sources - such as the geological surroundings and the sun - than there is now on Bikini Atoll...By all internationally agreed scientific and medical criteria...the air, the land surface, the lagoon water and the drinking water are all safe. There is no radiological risk in visiting the lagoon or the islands. The nuclear weapon tests have left practically no cesium in marine life. The cesium deposited in the lagoon was dispersed in the ocean long ago.

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"The main radiation risk would be from the food: eating locally grown produce, such as fruit, could add significant radioactivity to the body...Eating coconuts or breadfruit from Bikini Island occasionally would be no cause for concern. But eating many over a long period of time without having taken remedial measures might result in radiation doses higher than internationally agreed safety levels."

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Guess what, there is even a resort, fishing and dive operation on Bikini.

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Just don't eat specific local foods over an extended period or in large quantities.Just as with produce from other areas contaminated by anything such as petroleum, mercury, arsenic ...See US Superfund sites.See mercury concentration is sea food.See shellfish harvesting bans.

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One thing that seldom gets mentioned is that radiation contamination is really one of the easiest forms of contamination to detect.That's simply not true of many of the other poisons out there.See e Coli.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!