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Comment current situation is extreme luck for Japan (Score 1) 1122

Many people seem thinking that current situation at Fukusima is bad luck for Japan. This is not true, they are extremely lucky. Imagine wind is blowing not into the ocean but in the direction of 14 million Tokyo. Calculate deaths. Imagine evacuation of 14-million city. Also, someone thinking this situation is because of bad management. Nope. Chernobyl were in USSR, at the peak of USSR power, it were managed very well with smart people not thinking about money at all. Three Mile were in USA, under completely other government system, and it is still disaster. Problem is in nuclear industry itself. Some guys are thinking that other forms of energy generation are worse. This is not true again, as nobody really knows how bad nuclear incident may be. Chernobyl is certainly not a worst case, and actually USSR spent enormous amount of resources to soften aftermath. Almost all researchers in country were thinking about accident, 10000's of people were in there because they were just ordered or because of their own ideas. It is just not affordable in any style of government except communist. So, results may be much much worse.

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