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Originally Posted by SVOboy
I'd much rather live next to a nuclear plant than a coal plant, but at the same time, I don't really support building new reactors and instead favour heavy investment in alternative solutions (solar, wind, etc), so I voted "don't care."
However, I think the poll question is pretty clearly flawed, as it's not really asking anything. It's really just saying, would a nuclear plant v. no change be a good thing, which I think is a pretty silly question since that's not ever going to be the case. It's going to be a nuclear plant v some other source, some type of industry or manufacturing, etc.
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Fair enough with the reasoning. i don't see them ditching nuclear reactors due to the fact that there is little research to be done as far as developement, we know it works, we know it's safe (using modern designs, not the 40+ year old Fukushima Plant), we know what it's power generating capabilities are, i see it staying around for a long time, the big companies found a viable replacement for coal, and therefore they are less inclined to work towards something cleaner. i would like to see more solar and wind power generation, but i'm not expecting to see more of it any time soon