French-Japanese consortium bids for Turkey nuclear plant

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    jeff198527

    Every other post will be about how "evil" nuclear power is and how we need to waste money on "green" alternative s.

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    wanderlust

    Not a comment on the evils of nuclear power, just an observation.

    Turkey is a seismically active area within the complex zone of collision between the Eurasian Plate and both the African and Arabian Plates. Seismic hazard in Turkey is highest along the plate boundaries, but there is a significant risk of damaging earthquakes almost anywhere in the country. 20 quakes of magnitude 6 or higher on the Richter scale in the last 35 years or so.

    Have people learned nothing from Fukushima?

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    jeff198527

    Fukushima was the exception to the rule. Japan and other countries have used nuclear power safely for decades. Thinking the sky is going to fall because of one unforeseeable natural disaster is ignorant, immature, and unrealistic.

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