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Originally Posted by Kybosh
So . . . Japan should have no power plants? They don't have any oil or coal reserves (at least not in Japan). They might have significant natural gas reserves frozen on the ocean floor though that technology is far from proven and a long way off. Nuclear energy gets a bad rap because radioactivity and radiation is generally misunderstood by most people.
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Did I say Japan should have no power plants?
The solutions could be as simple as moving the nuclear plants inland further, or place them on higher ground. Maybe they could build huge retaining walls around them or some other construction method.
BTW Japan does have coal reserves. Unfortunately their production costs are too high to compete so they import most of it from Australia and other places. I don't know for sure but I suspect the high production cost to extract coal in Japan comes from various scam global-warming/CO2 emission policies there.
Nuclear energy gets a bad rap because of incidents like this and what happened in Chernobyl, and it's a valid public safety concern.