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It is difficult for me to see how such risk could make sense in a business model. The justification for nuclear power plants is that they are cost effective, but how can that be true in the face of the cost of those risks made real in front of us at places like Fukushima and Chernobyl?

People are always looking for something to unify the world. Reagan wondered if an alien threat wouldn't unite peoples and governments under a common banner. Why not this threat we have manufactured for ourselves? The nature of this thing is such that the average citizen is powerless in the face of it. This requires expertise and resources beyond the reach of anything but national governments to deal with, if that.

[QUOTE="trainedobserver, post: 135134, member: 2192"] It is difficult for me to see how such risk could make sense in a business model. The justification for nuclear power plants is that they are cost effective, but how can that be true in the face of the cost of those risks [I]made real [/I]in front of us at places like Fukushima and Chernobyl? People are always looking for something to unify the world. Reagan wondered if an alien threat wouldn't unite peoples and governments under a common banner. Why not this threat we have manufactured for ourselves? The nature of this thing is such that the average citizen is powerless in the face of it. This requires expertise and resources beyond the reach of anything but national governments to deal with, if that. [/QUOTE]

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