Huge wrote:
On 2011-03-12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

The practical reality is probably boring old PWR now, thorium and pebble
bed, and/or breeder or other tuned up fission in the next 30 years,

But not on fault lines.

Probably there also.

probably over 10,000 people have died in Japan. Only two so far in a
direct nuclear incident, and those not from radiation. And that because
two backup diesel generators failed, on an obsolescent design..


That's pretty damned good, actually.

With refineries and gas/oil storage destroyed and on fire, those nukes
are all that's likely to be working.

Windmills would have been dead in the water.