The State of American Nuclear Technology
Nuclear technology within the United States of America and the rest of the Western world has been on the back burner over the previous four decades due to disasters such as the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 with the Soviet Union/Russia power plant had a nuclear meltdown.
The most recent disaster concerning nuclear power was the Fukushima nuclear accident, a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011.
Nuclear power generation is not very popular with the electorate within Western democratic and liberal nations due to the fear of nuclear power plant failures, which is, in reality, heavily overblown.
For the Japanese they live on tectonic plates, which means the Japanese home islands regularly face tsunamis and earthquakes, which puts their infrastructure in jeopardy of destruction.
The incident within the former USSR/Russia related to the corruption within the Russian system and the corruption, which meant accidents that could have been avoided were ignored and covered up, which compounded the event’s failure.
The reluctance to build nuclear power plants in the United States means the United States hasn’t built new nuclear power stations since the 1970s, though there have been expansions…
