Sunday, March 13, 2011

After the earthquake in Japan: nuclear death and hunger for energy

Why nuclear power plants are just built in a country that is constantly shaken by earthquakes? Japan has more experience in dealing with earthquakes than any other nation, the picturesque traditional Japanese design with houses made of wood and paper is simply a response to these ever-present danger..


Of course in modern Japan are so many of these houses no more. We investigated the safety before the event today to reach with the present technology - as well as possible. But that security can never be absolute, is clear. And the consequences of a major earthquake, as it has now slammed shut, even the best preparedness will be suspended.

This is also true for nuclear power plants. But it is wrong to believe that had been discussed not in Japan itself. On the contrary, nuclear power and the risks involved there is always a hot topic was, and not least because Japan has made, unfortunately, in other experiences with the nuclear death.

But Japan is in raw materials for its energy needs now to depend - this is one of the backgrounds that this country of nuclear energy as grants it a high priority. Another is the Japanese love for art. Do others not have these problems? If one draws the eye to Libya, it is easier to take the whole dimension to the eye.

The energy hunger of the modern world, even where he is met by oil, its political, not least its security price. If you thought that begins with oil, think over, you end up back at the end of the nuclear destruction, in Pakistan, perhaps soon the Iranian bomb.

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