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Originally Posted by Matth
Nuclear is good for baseline load, gas is good for demand load, and wind/solar are good for producing when they feel like it. Current renewable energy technology is just not up to the job.
The Fukushima accident is barely relevant, other than to places where every backup is likely to get wiped out by quake/Tsunami - though it would be a good basic principle for new designs to be able to manage a safe emergency shutdown using only what is within the containment building.
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Apparently there are many large faults under Europe and the UK that could trigger massive earthquakes and tsunamis just as big as the one in Japan. I can't remember which channel it was on, but I was watching a program about it a while ago on one of the documentary channels. So the same thing could happen here to our nuclear power stations.