now there is where i parked my white car!

It would call for a certain high skill to park the car like that.

Glad that you were alright during this.

Thank you. Fortunately I was totally safe, but I felt something dreadful to keep taking those pictures not only because the area was not safe but also because of the horrible scenery. I think that you can see that the colour of the bottom half of the house is darker. This shows that the tusnami reached that height.

Would it be odd to say that what's happened at Fukushima has actually gotten me interested in Nuclear Engineering? I'm in my last year of highschool and applying for universities was previously interested in Petroleum Engineering, but now it has ignited a massive interest in me. I still feel Nuclear Power will save us from Climate Change and the "Nuclear Renaissance" won't stop, merely be delayed by a year or two.

I now want to help design better, safer, and stronger nuclear reactors than 40-years old Fukushima that can survive this kind of calamity such as Backup Power failure and hydrogen buildups. Then we can harness the full use of Nuclear Power without this ever happening again. With every plane crash flying gets safer, and I want to be one of those who helps design the next generation of safer nuclear power

It may mean the regression of the quality of our lives to cease the development of atomic energy. But for the electric power, our lives would easily go backword around to the late of the nineteenth century. On the other hand, the atomic energy easily turns into an invisible killer, if it were not properly handled, or controlled.

As you mention, we, the old generation, expect the next generation not only to put forth the more safer development
of nuclear power, but also the more effective harness of solar power.

Nuclear Power might be inherently dangerous, but there are many other things we do everyday that are: Driving cars, Riding high-speed trains or flying in planes are two big ones. But whenever we had a disaster did we stop flying in planes? No, we learnt what went wrong, fixed it, and made things safer. That's the point of technology and progress: To improve, not abandon. I think the biggest lesson we can learn from Fukushima is that Nuclear Reactors are earthquake-proof. The plant was not designed for a Magnitude 9 Earthquake and survived unscathed. What they are not is Tsunami-proof, and now we know we need to fix that.

And yes, it would be a massive step backwards for the world to abandon nuclear power. It produces an enormous amount of electricity very cheaply from a very small amount of fuel. The amount of nuclear fuel you use in your lifetime from your energy needs would fill a Cola Can, while the amount of Coal you'd need would fill thousands of Train cars. Also, thousands of people die every year mining for coal while in the US not a single person has died from nuclear power. Coal is far dirtier and does way more damage operating normally than nuclear does.

While Solar and Wind power are great power sources and I encourage development of them as well, they do not run all the time. They are not good sources of "Base Load Power," which is the bare minimum electricity that the power company can supply continuously. The only three clean sources of power that can are Hydroelectric, Nuclear and Geothermal, and even then Geothermal cannot run on the enormous scales Hydroelectric and Nuclear can.

Hopefully I will be part of the new generation to make Nuclear Power safer for us to use. She's a wild animal like a wolf, but she needs to be properly tamed to a Dog to help us.