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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
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.
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No, you didn't say Japan should have no power plants. You also never said anything about a tsunami, you just said earthquake sensitive (which is all of Japan). I'm not in a position to say where nuclear plants should or should not be built, but most of the affected plants successfully dealt with the tsunami. The fact is, Japan imports most of it's resources and must heavily rely on nuclear energy to support it's populace.
As far as preparedness is concerned, I think Japan is passing with wild colours. Similar intensity quakes have historically been much more devastating.