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Russia reasserts bid for post-Fukushima atomic lead

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Russia hopes to benefit from growth expected in the sector: the World Nuclear Association says 173 new reactors are planned from now to 2030, while 65 are currently under construction, mainly in developing countries.

Russian engineering is hardly the gold standard. The cost of waste storage and forever cost of security makes Nuclear the demented offspring of a failed fifty years safety record that cannot account for even half of the legacy costs.

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Germany is shutting down all of their nuclear energy plants and many nuclear energy plants in the USA cannot economically compete with natural gas etc. Nuclear energy probably still has an economic advantage for certain areas but that advantage is eroding.

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Unclear power.

From the politicians who don't understand it to the engineers who fail to calculate the full life costs of waste disposal, security and decommissioning.

Enough of the vanity projects.

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The power station’s director Vladimir Povarov insists that the VVER-1200 can withstand a 9-magnitude earthquake or a plane crash.

Yes, but can it stand human error, which is what led to the Chernobyl accident??? Idiots.

Neighboring Belarus is also building two VVER-1200 reactors with a $10 billion loan from Russia, close to its northwestern border with EU member Lithuania and its capital Vilnius.

Because those idiots didn't get enough radiation in 1986...

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At least the Russiand won't have the Israeli Mossad running security at their power stations like Japan does, along with other countries also. Guess the old Stuxnet computer virus won't be able to damage the reactors.

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Actually, some private companies are ahead in rocket tech - they're the only ones already working on reusable rockets which are the future

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