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Modern reactor designs insure no possibility of accidents like those in Japan.
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Thats what the Japanese thought.
In the followup of that little episode, it was illuminating to see how the economics of designing for disaster scenarios, as well as running the units involved "corner cutting" by the operators.
ie You cannot design greedy operators out of any object, and forcing them to put aside a suitable amount of money for decommisioning will be nigh on impossible.
The money spent ( directly and indirectly ) by governments to clean up Chernobyl and Fukushima must be getting quite large by now.
Andrew