[Schlaefer]

> Instead of informing the public of the facts (The plant was an antique, didn't meet safety standards, was built on a fault line)

Knowing these facts makes it even more scary. We can't move countries away from fault lines, so plants are going to be build in these places again. Everything new is going to be old eventually. There's no reason to expect meeting safety standards in the future if we can't do it right now.

[nitrogen]

Everyone seems to forget that it took a freaking tsunami that displaced hundreds of thousands of people to take out a 60 year old reactor design. While coal is killing people every day.

[Schlaefer]

Of course it should take a freak event to take out a nuclear power plant, it shouldn't happen every second Sunday. But I would also expect it to be an event that doesn't happen regularly every few hundred years [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

[BurningFrog]

More than displaced, the tsunami killed 20,000 people.

It was also the biggest Earthquake in 1000+ years of recorded Japanese history, and hit a small area where it could produce a tsunami overflowing the tsunami walls.

In the 99.99% likely world where this didn't happen, we'd have a much healthier nuclear power situation. But now we're in this world...

[rmbyrro]

I think I understand your point here, but it also seems to me this line of thinking also denies the laws of evolution...