The Mythos that Nuc's will save our energy problem

The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Power Plants

What are the lessons learned from Fukushima (2011) and Chernobyl (1986) - not to mention the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The first recorded nuclear disaster was the fallout at Hiroshima in Japan in 1945. Nuclear disasters has the unique property of rapid onset and are in general predictable before a very short timescale. Natural disasters like Hurricane or Tsunami, however, permits prediction and certain preperation time and ground based observation can be undertaken in order to monitor the spreading. While hurricanes follow a certain path and effects of Tsunamis, however, devastating are restricted to certain coastlines, the radiation released from a nuclear fallout spreads rapidly. Moreover, the „recovery“ time after a nuclear disaster is far larger than a natural disaster, in the order of few tens of years or even longer.