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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Right back at you with that. Since this has popped up again, I'll point out - a year or so after the first time - that no one has died from the effects of radiation at Fukushima.
As for the claim that parts of the Ukraine may never be habitable due to Chernobyl, note that the so-called Dead Zone is now a nature reserve, and by many accounts one of the environmentally-healthiest places in Europe.
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Sure one can pick up the good parts. Like with the sinking of the titanic. We got nice movies about it. Ships became more save after that. But no one would deny the losses of the sinking. And not of the nuclear disasters. We dont need the no-treshold theory for that. Because tresholds were many times exceeded. See here for the death toll of Chernobyl:
Chernobyl disaster effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So we agree that there is a danger of nuclear energy. We agree that the extend of danger is not certain yet. We agree that there are fears that might prove exaggerated in the future or are exaggerated even now.
The point is that we just dont need nuclear energy because we got renewable energy alternatives. Nuclear energy is not economic and heavily subsided, it is of danger and that we dont understand its danger fully does it make worse, it is not insured properly against the worst case scenario as any other industry or private person has to do and nuclear waste should be locked away for one million of years because of its toxicity, which is impossible to guarantee and therewith not justifiable towards the generation to come.
In the last maybe 80 years we just took the freedom to burn the fossil ressources of some hundred of millions of years and in the same 80 years leave radiating waste for the next million of years. Exploiting the past, poisoning the future! What would we feel about people who lets say lived 4000 years ago who did burn anything they could find (wood, turf, coal, oil, gas, uran) within a couple of years or so and left waste which will still radiate for about one million years? And our archeologists tell us that they did that not because of an emergency. No they did hand over earth to the next generations in a state like that because they wanted to drive their cars, to buy this and that, eating a bit more than is good for health. What would we think about them? Do we want to be such people? We got the choice.