In every case, I vote for caution-- be it GM food or large nuclear plants or large dams. These things are not reversible...you cannot say "Oops! sorry" and move on.
When I was a child, all movies had Films Division documentaries before the show. One was on the rupture of the Koyna dam due to an earthquake. Many people had warned about this, but were told that they were anti technology, anti progress etc.
The same kind of dismissal of nay-sayers has happened years later in the case of the Tehri dam.
I am sure any odd person who was concerned about having so many reactors together at Fukushima would have also been told the same thing and any suggestion that a mega earthquake could strike would be countered with an assurance that all precautions had been taken.
I am also sure that in the case of the Jaitapur reactor complex, teh same thing will happen... "all precautions have been taken" " no earthquake above 7 on the Richter scale will ever hit this area" etc. until something does happen.
Instead, why not have more number of smaller things -- whether dams or reactors?
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