A significant increase in the use of nuclear power in Japan (and more importantly elsewhere) will likely lead to long term lower oil prices. It remains that nuclear energy is much safer and much cleaner then other types of energy (including 'green' energy like solar and wind)
Because windmills also sometimes create superfund radioactive sites where human life is impossible for generations?Nuclear is safer and cleaner, except when it isn't. Fusion reactors please. These fission fails are for the lose.
It was also estimated that there would have been few deaths of people who were living in the evacuated areas in the 2011 incident, although people who would have stayed and continued to live would have had a higher risks of certain cancers, although still overall low risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents#Nuclear_meltdown
Yes I am aware that there are more nuclear reactors that haven't had catastrophic failures that have resulted in massive and unresolvable pollution effects that have damaged those that were completely unrelated to the reactor and derived none of its benefits while running.
So how rare are these windmill meltdowns?
You brought up the comparison, claiming the fission reactors are cleaner and safer. Maybe you are right, but just how did you come to this assessment?
