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posted by mrpg on Sunday December 02 2018, @07:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the up-and-atom dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] France is a major player in the nuclear industry: in 2012, about 75 percent of its electricity came from nuclear reactors. But since the Fukushima disaster that same year, the country has been pushing to retire some of its older reactors (although not as aggressively as Germany did). According to Power Magazine, in 2014 France's lower house of parliament passed a bill that would have capped nuclear power at 50 percent of the country's energy mix by 2025. Since then, the cap has been removed and reinstated by legislative bodies, and while reducing nuclear reliance to 50 percent of the country's energy mix seemed to be certain, the timeline to do it was far from certain.

[...] As France moves away from nuclear, Japan is slowly turning some of its nuclear reactors back on. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan suspended its nuclear fleet for safety inspection, leaving the country with no nuclear power. Instead, Japan currently burns more coal, oil, and natural gas. In 2015, two reactors came back online for the first time, and a handful of reactors have been approved to reconnect with the grid every year since then.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @07:25AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @07:25AM (#768848)

    Cars such as the Ford Pinto tend to explode in a fireball when rear-ended. The handling isn't so great either.

    After some public outrage driven by sensationalist reporting and an anti-war faction funded by the USSR, we decide to ban car production.

    60 years later, cars are still unsafe. The typical car is a 60-year-old Ford Pinto held together with chickenwire and lots of Bondo.

    Cars are just fundamentally death traps that explode in minor accidents. Legalizing car production would be terrible.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @08:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @08:50AM (#768854)

    after initial skepticism of introducing the the car on a massive scale, due to "un-natural speeds" and other concerns,
    the car was introduced on a massive scale nevertheless.
    it allowed to live far from the workplace, a larger roaming area to obtain sustenance (food) and more leisure time.
    many years later, society and infrastructure has evolved around the car. even though it has been found that
    the car generated pollution and is harmful for the environment, even opponents have to admit that there's
    no way to turn back the clock ... we are stuck with a bad deal.
    and if a nuclear renaissance happens now, the same will happen. every few years a nuke will blow up
    but we have grown so reliant on the car .. err... nuke (economy, infrastructure, health care?, farming?) that we just have to live with it.

    "oh, we can use coal to make electricity. let's make a lot of those coal burning electricity plants.
    fast forward: oh, coal is bad, let's use nukes instead. fast forward: ..."

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday December 02 2018, @01:03PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 02 2018, @01:03PM (#768878) Journal

      it allowed to live far from the workplace, a larger roaming area to obtain sustenance (food) and more leisure time.

      [...]

      we are stuck with a bad deal.

      Doesn't look like a bad deal from what I'm reading.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by RandomFactor on Sunday December 02 2018, @04:55PM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 02 2018, @04:55PM (#768911) Journal

      "and if a nuclear renaissance happens now, the same will happen. every few years a nuke will blow up"

      Just for perspective:

      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh [ourworldindata.org]

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday December 02 2018, @09:37AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday December 02 2018, @09:37AM (#768864) Homepage Journal

    Don't forget General Motors. Otherwise known as GM. We don't forget GM, do we? And the horrible Ignition Scandal. Big problem with the GM cars. Millions and millions of cars. Where, you put the key in the car. And it's like a rocket going off. The Ignition of the rocket. And the rocket crashing. Many crashes, fire everywhere. So many people dieing. Hundreds of people burned to a crisp. Terrible company. And now they're going to China. I'll tell you, they can go. We're much better without them. Because they're very DISLOYAL. And their cars are very dangerous. I will never ride in a GM car. For me it's Cadillac all the way.

    My Father loved Cadillac. And I love Cadillac, it's an American classic. I had one with the very special license plate, they call it vanity plate. But it wasn't vanity. It said DJT. My initials. Very useful, very easy to remember. For me and my Chauffeurs.

    And Cadillac went into production on two Cadillac-body limousines using my name. The Trump Golden Series was the most opulent stretch limousine ever made. The Trump Executive Series was a slightly less lavish version of the same car.

    This began about 1986 when John and I were in Palm Beach. And I was saying "John, what Cadillac ought to do is come up with a design for an incredi­ble limousine that has the big headroom and all of the assets that anyone could want."

    Later, I got a call from John and he said "Would you like to get in­volved with this design project?" I said "I know nothing about cars ex­cept what I personally like............." But be­tween myself, Cadillac, and John Staluppi at Dillinger, we went ahead and designed the car.

    We built one, and we saw a lot of things we didn’t like. So we went back (several times), and this is what we produced. And we think we prob­ably designed the ultimate limousine to be found anywhere in the world.

    You can see the kind of quality there is. We left nothing out. I’m very honered that they built me the first one and, frankly, I deserve it. I really am very honered and I would like to thank Cadillac and everyone else involved. Great job, guys!!!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @05:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @05:32PM (#768926)

      The only car that could possibly have enough headroom for your ego would need to be a convertible.