Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

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    Slightly off topic, there are about 450 nuclear plants on earth. A noted MIT study in 1989 estimated that each nuclear plant only has a worst case nuclear accident every 20000 years.

    Statistically that would make one every 44 years.

    In our history we have had nuclear power plants for about 60 years, and so far there were three worst case nuclear accidents.

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      That 3 in 60 is pretty loaded since Chernobyl simply would not have been possible with western reactors of the same design year, to say nothing of what passed as modern than and even more so now.

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        It would also not have been possible with their design, if all the failguards wouldn’t have failed.

        But 2 in 60 years, both of western design, is still more than that study estimated.