Originally Posted by
Romeojin
so you saying its an act of stupidity for Japan to build nuclear power plants cause they are located in an earthquake prone area? the fact is they build those even they have over 1000 quakes a year cause they know its a calculated risks and they can handle it.
No, I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that power source is by definition not completely safe and that despite Japan's best planning an incident has occurred which has released unknown quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere near one of the World's mega-cities.
In life we take risks, that is the nature of human endeavor and the reason for progress. However, we are not Japan and I do not believe that we currently possess the resources to contain or control any nuclear related problems. Of course we need power, but right now the stakes (IMO) are simply too high to consider the nuclear option for ourselves.