[OT] Engine braking

[Walter Bright]

On 8/1/2013 11:46 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> That's in the US. Most of Europe is on nuclear power.
>
> If we set aside controversies on the dangers of plant meltdown (BTW, Fukushima
> was hit by a mag 9 *and* a tidal wave, just saying), it *is* about over 9000
> times greener.
>
> IMO, nuclear power is like airplanes: Spectacular when an accidents happen, but
> at the end of the day (IMO) safer: Coal miners die by the 100's when a cave in
> happens, and thousands of people die in china due to coal pollution.

I know. The problems with nukes are political, not technological.

All the plant safety problems can be solved.

I also don't really understand the issue with radiation that lasts 10,000 years. 
It, by definition, will be extremely weak radiation.