such as the Chernobyl and the Three Mile Island incidents. These accidents have many activists and politicians cautious about the prospect of using nuclear power as a complete alternative to fossil fuels—regardless nuclear plants are responsible for 11% of the energy supplied to the world annually...
That's about a million times more than Three Mile Island, and about a third of Chernobyl. But things were done very differently. The area around Fukushima was very quickly evacuated and prophylactic iodine was distributed just as fast. Neither of these things were done at Chernobyl in a ...
Its a big shame that Nuclear power has been neglected for so long due to the fear created by accidents like TMI and Chernobyl. I co-wrote a column a while ago about future electricity generation https://www.talkingfuture.com/2009/01/how-will-grid-electricity-be-generated.html In the end...
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