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Two people were injured when a parcel bomb exploded on Thursday in the offices of a Swiss umbrella group for the nuclear industry, police said.
The incident occurred in the offices of Swissnuclear in the town of Olten. The pair suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital.
Originally posted by DarkOutlook
The State ran Chernobyl, and private enterprise ran Fukashima, both have been awful disasters, so who is better equipped to run them?
Given that oil is a finite resource and coal is unfashionable even though clean burning technologies are available, what choice is there, it will have to be nuclear.
China to build 60 nuclear reactors over next decade...
China plans to build six nuclear power plants a year over the next decade, increasing its nuclear power capacity to more than 70 gigawatts by 2020, according to a top official of a nuclear power company. www.asahi.com...
Originally posted by IamAbeliever
reply to post by HunkaHunka
But have we really learned anything from our mistakes? Take Chernobyl for example. After Chernobyl there should have been a set safety standard for all nuclear reactors, regardless of where they are located. Instead, these reactors are built to diiferent specs depending on their location. A reactor here in Ohio is not built to withstand a devastating earthquake, whereas in California it obviously would be.
A mere 5 miles from where I live sits a nuclear power plant. After it's completion, it was discovered that it straddles a fault line. Now as I stated, reactors here aren't built to withstand a powerful earthquake. Well obviously they aren't going to tear it down and start over, so it's a case of we will deal with that when/if it happens. Maybe when it comes to nuclear power our governments should be a little more proactive and a hell of a lot less reactive.