Japan Quake

Americans love dying.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

No matter what you do, nuclear power is risky. I agree that the risk is worth it, but it's not like the fear is there for no reason.

The fact that Americans on the West Coast have cleared out the area of potassium iodine pills is because Americans are, as a general rule, afraid of their (our) own shadow. But that's not exactly news.

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The irony here is that the fear is what's stopping people from advancing enough to make the tech safer. The people who want to build reactors with modern technology are right. There are issues that need to be resolved (storing depleted pellets, for example). If Japan had shut down its reactors and rebuilt as they were scheduled there is a very real chance this whole thing could have been averted. Even being ancient technology the plant survived one of the most intense earthquakes in modern times. Imagine if it had been build in 2000 onward.

And more people are killed in the process of getting energy from cole than all of the nuclear fallout ever. Nuclear just has a big scary question mark over it.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

And more people are killed in the process of getting energy from cole than all of the nuclear fallout ever. Nuclear just has a big scary question mark over it.

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But those are Appalachian Americans, which might as well be foreigners. And everyone knows how concerned westerners are about the foreigners responsible for the goods they provide.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

. . the process of getting energy from cole than all of the . . .

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Coal.

He's burning the Cole Train.

Burning John Coltrane?

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers...Blue-Train.jpg

http://poppas2cents.files.wordpress....crubs-cole.jpg

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

getting energy from cole

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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jN8m_LGIsz...us_02_1600.jpg

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

getting energy from cole

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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1300762218

My bad on coal. No idea who those people are except the dude from Gears, though.