On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>wrote:
> But, Joshua, what about Fukashima? Do you think that the reactor there needed to be "plugged in" -- for safety -- meant that the energy produced was doubtful? It occurred to me that the Fukushima disaster occurred partly *because* it depended on external power for cooling in the event of an unintentional shut-down. Modern reactors have passive emergency cooling systems that do not depend on power of any kind.