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Originally Posted by Sigaba
Even if the facility in Japan ultimately proves the durability of nuclear power plants, the NIMBY crowd and environmentalists will beat the "It could have been much worse" drum loudly enough to drown out all else.
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It would be a shame to waste a perfectly good crisis.
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STUTTGART, GERMANY - MARCH 12: Anti-nuclear activists hold hands in a human chain they projected as 45km long in front of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011 near Neckarwestheim, Germany. The activists were protesting against the government-granted extension of the operational timespan of several of Germany's older nuclear power plants, which Chancellor Merkel's government claims is necessary to bridge demand before planned renewable energy projects begin operation. The activists claim their call for an end to nuclear power is all the more vital given the current, potential catastrophe brewing at at least one reactor at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima facility in Japan.
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