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I'd like to hear from nuclear engineers one more time why Nuclear Power is safe

Stimulated by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crisis, echoes of a rebellious sixties have flooded my mind once again. I am sure that nuclear engineers are among the brightest and best humans there are, but I want to hear from them one more time just why it was better to place this nuclear power plant not just at the coast but actually on the sea's edge in a place known for its earthquakes and tsunamis. Tsunami - after all is a Japanese word so you might think someone would have taken note.  I'd like to hear one more time why it was not a design flaw in these General Electric boiling water reactors to encase the nuclear fuel rods in a metal known to react with water at high temperatures to produce a highly explosive gas, hydrogen.

I'd like to hear from these designers of a technology who have the word 'redundancy' tattooed on their hearts, how was it that coolant flow depended upon a single valve.  Haven't these nuclear engineers heard of Murphy's Law? (If there is only one valve on which your system really depends, then that's the one that will fail).

I'd like to hear it one more time why backup electricity generation plants could be so easily swamped by a tsunami and why 8 hours of back-up battery were not sufficient to do what was necessary.  I'd like to hear why worst the case scenario training did not seem to include the worst case scenario.

I'd like to hear why it's such a good idea to have the cooling ponds to store spent fuel rods actually lie atop the reactor itself. Obviously convenient, obviously a liability when explosive gases build up in the reactor vessel beneath.

I'd like to hear from the Nuclear industry just one more time why they think nuclear power is perfectly safe. 

And further, I'd like to hear one more time why it's fair and just to lie about nuclear disasters in the making and deliberately not give the full information to the ones who are going to get in the neck - the public - and to deny them any chance of making their own decisions and handling their own survival.