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Fukushima & Chernobyl are very old designs, any analysis of nuclear power needs to be done in a way that is mindful of the greatly reduced risk posed by modern designs. I'd also point out that there is a generation of plant designs on the horizon that have a completely passive safety system, so loss of plant power does not disrupt safety and control systems. If the public can ever be convinced of the inherit safety of these new designs, rolling them out everywhere would be great economically and environmentally.


It isn't the public that needs convincing.

It is the people who provide the budgets who have drawn up rules that make it nearly impossible to build the safer designs as they haven't been run for as long a time as the unsafe ones, so score worse on the risk assessment.

Hence why the UK is getting a brand new actively cooled pressurized water reactor built by China based on a French design, though it might not be now. - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b8741dd0-1048-11e5-bd70-00144feabd...




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