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27. Yes, that's right.

I stand by my remarks. There has been one earthquake related destruction of a nuclear complex by a geological event. People like to act as if the 20,000 people who died in that event were killed by radiation from the plant.

The reality is that practically everyone who died, did so from seawater, not radiation. If it "proves" anything, it proves that coastal cities are "too dangerous."

I do regard the selective attention as ignorant since it is a fact that seawater killed more people than radiation.

Facts matter, and do so far more that speculation.

At Fukushima, diesel engine failure from seawater was a root cause of the melt down. This problem can be engineered away. My favorite solution would include using residual heat from used nuclear fuel or its constituents in the ever improving thermoelectric devices. Bathed in seawater would have improved the thermodynamic efficiency of the devices, which have no moving parts.

Air crashes have killed more people than nuclear plants but they are not phased out when they fail. Rather engineers improve their design.

I have heard all this rhetoric before, of course. I lived in California when Diablo Canyon was being built, and in fact was a dumbass antinuke at the time. Happily for me, when I looked into Chernobyl which established the worst case, it occurred to me, using something called "critical thinking " that the worst nuclear case was trivial when compared to the observed reality of climate change in the best case.

Your scary "if" statements do not dissuade me from observing what "is." Closing Diablo Canyon remains for me a crime against humanity. It will kill people who do not need to die.