We have to get over the decades of fear mongering to finally get to that point. It also doesn't help when situations like Fukushima taint people even more to the point that they don't listen when you refute that with, "maybe we shouldn't build nuclear power plants in areas that have excessive tectonic activity AND are prone to tsunami's?"
Japan needed to build a type of nuclear plant that physically cannot meltdown if they were going to build one. (I.E. Molten Salt) They picked a type and location that was a collectively stupid decision from the very beginning.
It's like the people that intentionally built houses in areas of Louisiana that are below sea level. It doesn't matter if you think the levees won't fail, you just don't do something that is that ridiculously stupid like building residential areas below sea level in the first place. It doesn't matter if you think you won't have a problem building that type of reactor in that area, just don't do it.
We have to get over the decades of fear mongering to finally get to that point. It also doesn't help when situations like Fukushima taint people even more to the point that they don't listen when you refute that with, "maybe we shouldn't build nuclear power plants in areas that have excessive tectonic activity AND are prone to tsunami's?"
To be fair to Japan, they are an island nation and don't have a lot of land area to potentially put a power plant on.
Then there's the USA.
Japan needed to build a type of nuclear plant that physically cannot meltdown if they were going to build one. (I.E. Molten Salt) They picked a type and location that was a collectively stupid decision from the very beginning.
It's like the people that intentionally built houses in areas of Louisiana that are below sea level. It doesn't matter if you think the levees won't fail, you just don't do something that is that ridiculously stupid like building residential areas below sea level in the first place. It doesn't matter if you think you won't have a problem building that type of reactor in that area, just don't do it.