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Or, you know, it's being downvoted for blatant falsehoods like:

"Today's nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe. Most that are in operation depend on active cooling systems to prevent a meltdown."




80% of the world's nuclear fleet are in fact light water reactors - like Fukushima - which require continuous cooling and a constant source of power.

Even the latest passive safety proposals like liquid fluoride thorium reactors don't conclusively solve the fundamental problem of overheating after a cooling system failure [1].

[1] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/6/not-so-fa...


Only 15 plants in operation have gen-3 passive cooling features and these systems are hardly fail safe.

http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...




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