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RE: Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Is this the future of power generation?
I am a die hard free market guy. That being said if we didn't learn from Fukushima we never will. We're 100 years away form knowing how to deal with meltdowns etc. Radiation never goes away it just spreads around the planet. Cancer rates are up all over the world and this is part of it. All forms of power generation have downsides but nukes are not the answer we need. Lets hope we survive Fukushima. Its far from over and is destroying the entire Pacific. The people in Japan are going to have exploding cancer rates in about 20 years.
Go free market :) We have radiacs, as you probably know, that measure radiation levels and after the accident at Fukushima there have been virtually negligible changes in many "hot spots" and no changes elsewhere (though there are many anti-nuc power organizations would have us believe otherwise). So, in my opinion, except for in some small parts of localized contamination, which probably didn't affect life either, I think it just seemed worse to a lot of people than it actually was. Plus, I'd say that the many cases of cancer that are here, which are tragic, are at this point just correlated to but not caused by nuclear energy production. Arguably, many people have cancer because of the amount of sugar being digested in their diets for extended (sometimes entire lives) periods. Not trying to diminish your intelligence (lots of people don't like opposing views), I just disagree and though I am not sure of the acute doses that Japanese people received I think (and at least hope) they won't have any more cancer rates in 20 than they had had before. I guess we'll see. :)