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What?! Chernobyl only happened because they were OVERCLOCKING THE REACTOR! Even if there was a meltdown from this power station the blow would be a lot lot lot less severe.
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At Chernobyl, they shut down the cooling system before doing their silly experiment - They didn't notice the reactor was getting hot because the plant was built hastily and cheaply and their heat detectors were dysfunctional. They first removed the control rods for the experiment, then stuck them back in - Control rods initially made the reactor create more heat when they were meant to slow the reaction down. That pushed it over the edge, and it boiled the water causing a build up of steam pressure, and it blew apart the reactor.
Although the situation in Japan isn't as severe as this, apparently it's similar - There isn't a working cooling system. The reactors are overheating/have already overheated, boiling water and creating lots of steam pressure, and there's bugger-all they can do about it. Just their plants are better built than Chernobyl so shouldn't spread vast amounts of radioactive material everywhere.
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You come up with a viable alternative to nuclear power that does it's job efficiently (wind mills are bullshit for their money, so is solar at this point) and we'll get on that right away.
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I think the future is solar energy - It makes a lot of sense considering it's a large contributing factor to life being on Earth. It just needs a lot of investment which people don't really seem prepared to do.
Parabolic mirrors or lenses
which focus the suns energy to a point (link) may be the way forward with that - You can set many of these up in desert areas, though you'll have to keep the mirrors and lenses clean. You can even have solar towers for generating power where there isn't as much sun. As for transporting the energy - You can use this power to generate hydrogen gas locally in the desert areas and transport that around the world for burning.
Think it's unsafe and impractical? Think about how complex nuclear power is, how we transport flammable gas around the world, and the massive, massive amount of money that we pour into gathering coal and oil. Yes, you need water to generate hydrogen, but it doesn't have to be clean water as far as I know. You can pipeline or transport that from afar, like we do with oil.
If you want to be more radical,
people are even talking about setting up solar panels on the moon (link), which gets a lot of sun and doesn't have an atmosphere, then beaming the power back to Earth using microwave energy. And apparently you can create the solar panels by using materials that are already on the moon.