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Nuclear Energy is great. Forget all those fossil fuels. Hope everyone will be cranking up those AC’s July-September.!

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Japan's nuclear regulation agency and Kyushu electric power who had missed even piping corrosion.

in case of radiation leaks,

Plutonium-thermal type nuclear plants is more dangerous than other nuclear plants but,

its risk is still ignored among Japanese authorities.

Present safety standard of Japan do not consider risk of direct type earthquake,

and also practicability of evacuation plans are not inspected yet.

Japanese authorities divert eyes from worst case scenario of nuclear disaster unlike worst case scenario of natural disaster.

it is not clear where is responsible of nuclear disaster in Japan yet.

local governor,mayor,government,power company,nuclear agency,

Nobody declare responsibility about nuclear disaster,

Nobody say to guarantee safety.

The side who thrust nuclear plants take risk nothing substantially,

Only residents are burdened with risk.

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in case of Fukushima nuclear disaster,

about 80% of all radiation leaks flowed to pacific ocean side of east side of nuclear plants by wind direction.

Many densely populated areas are around Genkai nuclear plants than around of Fukushima Daiichi.

Not only nuclear policy,

Present most oppressive Abe regime in post-war Japan history thrust politics that prioritize large corporation's profit than safe of residents and labor.

They have learned nothing from Fukushima disaster that many residents lost life,hometown,work,memories,community,even cemetery or remains.

Genkai plutonium-thermal type nuclear disaster will cause many victims more than Fukushima disaster,and far extensive area than 2011 will be contaminated by wind direction.

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The radiation from Fukushima will give an annual dose of 120 milliSievert. Prior nuclear workers were admitted an annual dose of 200 milliSievert. The limit value today is 20 milliSievert.

A Swedish voman make a documentary over the Fukushima disaster and explained the the meassuring documented dose value 5 - 6 times the limit value. That means about 120 milliSievert.

A University in Kiev Ucraine has developed a measuring device that will follow the March lander to document which radiation an astronaut will be exposed for during the travelling and visiting on March.

If a do calculate the annual exposition for the astronaut by following the March lander and visiting on March for a total time of one year. He will be exposed for an annual dose of 360 milliSieverts which will increase the lung cancer risk with 1 percent. But smoking do result in an increased lung cancer risk with 1 500 percent.

Of cource nuclear have their risks but we have to compare that with other risks in our society.

Wind power do kill 166 persons during one single year which is more than what the civil nuclear have from the very beginning.

Our society will become more and more electrical. The complete transport sector agriculture earth mowing wood industry etc plus server halls battery facture and furnaces conversion from coal to gas. Like in Sweden only the furnaces represent demand of electricity almost equal to today wind power.

Finnaly. For the future we do need much more electricity than today

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Still have free electricity and getting a nice little profit from my solar panels.

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The reason a accident prone NPP can restart near active volcanoes and tsunami/earthquke risks is...it is so, so far from Tokyo. Countryside. No bother to Tokyo if...

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This place was commissioned in 1975. That means all the reactors are over 40 years old. They were only built to last 30 years. Cue the theme from The Simpsons.

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zichi: "Power demand is down 11%"... and most economic models are based on ever-increasing consumer demand.

At my friend's house and farm in the UK they must have a huge electricity bill with all the lights on day and night. Here where I live in Japan we are very, very tight about electricity usage, mostly only one bulb lit in the room we are in. My wife will not allow use of the one air-conditioner that we have. No exponential power demand around here, but I would be really happy to see more harnessing of wind and solar power.

Especially when a collective global voice says that we must all buy electric cars from now on. What kind of grid will support that scenario?

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Burning fossil fuels kills as well. I bet the odds of getting lung cancer are higher in Tokyo than Fukushima.

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Problematic Japan's nuclear policy should Not justified under the name of "climate change".

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AS we know that we do need a lot of electricity in the future we do need nuclear depending on that solar- and wind power is not predictable. A stable electricity production is necessary as a lot of processes do not tolerant short interrupts in the electricity as critical surgery etc.

There are processindustry that note tolerate interrupts of seconds, milliseconds etc. The steel industry as example have e very accurate regulation by cooling etc which means that the quality of the steel in the end differ as effect of bad electricity deliveries.

Prior we have mills but they have been outconquered by other methods. They same ought to happen with wind power.

Sun power. A speaking partner in Sweden have mounted a lot sun power to his farm and as a result earned €120 pro mounth. If we compare that with a normal nuclear plant of 1 000 MW. To get equal income you do need 600 000 of the mentioned solar plant compare to one normal nuclear plant.

In Sweden a private house do install four solar panels to a cost of €4 500 and get an income of only €8 pro mounth. In all he had an annual income of €100.

What I mean is that the renewable energy is very rowmaterial intensive, cost a lot, is man intensive and don´t give that much back.

Of cource nuclear have their risks but according to IPCC that are risks that we can live with.

I beg you. Read this calm through and try to not immedeately oppose the way I am attacking the problem to get Japan and the world an production of electricity that correspond an even more increasing demand of electricity. The electricity consumption in the world are estimated to rice with 25 percent to 2040. If the demand will rice even more as result of an ongoing procedure of replacing a lot of systems with today other types of consumption to become dependent on electricity what will we do. Renewable do not represent a way forward.

In the future nuclear plant converts to generation IV or Thorium reactors. The first can use existing fuel to produce electricity 100 times more and Thorium reactors can use Thorium from the worldwide oceans. That will be a renewable source to nuclear as Thorium in the oceans do increase for each year.

A way for the future I think we shall force the development of gen IV and Thorium reactors. What is your opinion?

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Zichi.

According to British expert evacuation was not needed. If a Tsunami hit the coast and destroyed buildings so that the people have to evacuate. This shouldn´t been included in the cost for the Fukushima disaster. Why are we not talking about 10 000 killed as result of that a water power plant was destroyed. Do calcolate the costs re Fukushima in a proper way.

If a lot of buildings were destroyed than as a result of that will be reduced electric power demand.

There are a lot of development within the nuclear area as Gen IV and Thorium reactors. The last use Thorium from the ocean which amount do grow for each year. That is a renewable source.

For each 1000 MW nuclear reactor you need 600 000 plants which gives €120 pro mounth. For the total nuclear program in Sweden we need 6 miljon plants and have in totalt 1.7 private owned house. For Japan you need 30 miljon solar plants. How many houses in Japan. That is you have to install solar panels on most of the houses.

If we transfer the whole transportsector to electricity the electricity demand have to grow rapidly. All transport on wheels will be electric as well as earth mowing-, agriculture-, and wood handling machines plus private boots etc.

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