If Taiwan has nowhere to escape, Singapore will be a worst position when it comes to radiation leak. We cannot stop our neighbours from building nuclear plant if they want to, but why should we ourselves build a bomb in our very own backyard? Anyway, our neighbours have not started yet, and we are talking about taking the initiatives now.WeiHan wrote:The Chernobyl nuclear plant was of a totally different design that they can't even shut the nuclear plant even when they want to.markfch wrote:You know what caused the Three Mile nuclear meltdown and Chernobyl disaster? It is not due to the lack of safety measures, of which there are plenty. It's due mainly to human errors. Mind you, not big ones but rather a series of small little mistakes which resulted in the final catastrophe.WeiHan wrote: The closing down of nuclear plants in Germany is purely political due to Green party. USA, China, Russia have gave green light to go ahead with nuclear because it is the ONLY way to go. Germany will suffer from this decision.
Actually, Fuku disaster is nothing to worry, surely not as bad as the media has played it up. One fact which they missed reporting was that this Fuku nuclear plant that ran into problem was so old, nearly 40 years, and the design was so out of date that it was a wrong decision on their part to continue extrending its service. Modern nuclear plants are safe in that they are built to resist major shock from earthquake and they designed with many safe-control that will guarantee auto shut down in case of emergency. Is the fuku power plant of this design. Surely, it is not.
What about the risk of terrorist attack or even conventional war?
Give me lesser economic growth anytime. But I don't want a ticking time bomb waiting to explode in my own backyard.
I am not sure you have a choice. What if Malaysia want to built a few? Don't dream of running away. Even Taiwan concur that there will be nowhere to escape if something happen to one of their 3 nuclear plants. Even countries of the size of Taiwan have nowhere big enough to escape. I am not sure, is it just lower growth that we have to face or survival?
Survival in the form of life or survival in the form of economic growth for a country? Look at Japan, at what expense did they pay for the radiation leak in terms of effect to her people and economic growth? How long are they going to suffer for that mess? Isn't it about time to educate our people and businesses about energy saving, using of greener form of energy like solar power, etc.
Of course we have a choice! Everyone can choose to move somewhere where they do not have a bomb in their backyard, or maybe further from the bomb! In fact, for the case of Singapore having a nuclear plant, I do not think this is a bomb ticking away in my backyard, it is more like a bomb waiting to explode in my face anytime!