Letter: Nuclear power is safe

I have long thought about retiring to Indonesia. Since I am a nuclear engineering major I might even be able to work there.

Japan has been able to build nuclear reactors that are earthquake resistant. The new ones in the US are required to be earthquake proof, even if there is no chance of an earthquake, in order to satisfy the more luddite environmentalists.

Due to void coefficient it is physically impossible for an incident like Chernobyl to ever happen again, the new US, Japanese and Korean reactors all have passive systems that make the Three Mile Island incident impossible. Considering that no one has ever been killed or injured due to Western nuclear power, I don’t see why everyone thinks nuclear power is dangerous.

It is time for other countries to share in the bounty of nuclear power.
 
Dan
The US