Last week a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Japan.
As reported by Reuters-
It also started a fire at the seven-reactor, 8,212-megawatt Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant that burned a transformer, spilled several hundred barrels containing radioactive waste and vented some radioactive waste.
Is a little thing like that going to slow down plans in the United States to build a bunch of nuclear reactors within the next ten years?
No way!
Within a decade, a U.S. nuclear power renaissance is expected to be in full swing. No U.S. nuclear power plants have been ordered since 1978, the year before the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania.
According to the Reuters article, at least 13 companies are working on paperwork to build new reactors, most of which will be built in the southeastern United States.
The article adds that the damaged plant in Japan will not cause a change the design for the new reactors.
God forbid we should learn from the mistakes of our past.
Will the southeastern states want these reactors in their hometowns if they can't dump their waste in Yucca Mountain or some other repository far, far away?