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Well the way for a reactor to "demonstrate an improvement" over Fukushima would be to withstand the same kind of earthquake + tsunami that Fukushima didn't.

It doesn't make sense to say it's hard to demonstrate improvements when it's not even under our control.

But demonizing nuclear power has nothing to do with it.

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> Well the way for a reactor to "demonstrate an improvement" > over Fukushima would be to withstand the same kind of > earthquake + tsunami that Fukushima didn't.

Gee, what a great idea! In fact, a slightly improved reactor was operating in the other Fukushima plant, and all its reactors were shut down safely after being hit by the same Tsunami.

More modern designs are safer still. For example, there are designs that do not require external power for a shutdown at all.

Yes, modern designs are safer – but the first lesson to be learnt from Fukushima should be to take the older designs from the grid.

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