Time to move nuke to the same bad side as oil and coal

Washington Earthquake Raises Red Flag About Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants - The Daily Beast: "A small malfunction at a Virginia nuclear plant during Tuesday’s quake has raised new concerns about whether America’s nuclear facilities can withstand forceful ground shaking. By Daniel Stone."

One would think that we need no more warning than this. But we have typically exempted nukes from the bad rap we give to depleted and vanishing fossil fuels. That's a mistake. We warm the globe up to produce the extreme weather that shakes up the nuke plants that bothers us for a while and then we go back to building them and saying how safe they are.

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