On 21/10/14 18:58, Bruce Johnson wrote:

> Germany dumped their nukes in response to Fukushima, which was not an
> altogether idiotic thing to do. If a country as allegedly
> technocratic and competent as Japan could have such a disaster, the
> people of Germany certainly thought that they no longer wished to
> have that risk.
>
> YOU may think it’s irrational, but that doesn’t make it so.

Yeah, but just how many nuclear reactors in Germany were likely to be
hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake swiftly followed by several million
tonnes of seawater crashing over them in the resultant tsunami?

I wonder just who, no matter how technocratic and competent, could
design a nuclear plant to withstand that.

David Shaw