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Originally Posted by Giovanni LiCalsi
So you are saying that the oceans and air are now purified with nuclear waste?
How crazy is that idea!
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No, I'm saying that the amount of radiation emitted is far below what naturally occurrs there anyway - all that H-3, C-14, K-40, &c - and far below the level needed to cause harm.
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That nuclear power plants are somehow without failure and do not emit the worst poison pollution created by man that will last for thousands of years!
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There you get into the religious thing again.
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Humans can not control nuclear power plants and they do not pay back profits. They only shift financially responsibility on the back of the citizens.
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Observed evidence shows this is false. Nuclear plants can be run profitably, the are controlled, and far from shifting financial responsibility, they are (in the US) forced to operate under a tax burden that no other form of power generation has to bear. Fossil fuel plants, by contrast, get to dump most of their waste into the atmosphere, at no cost to themselves.
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Why don't you read the stats about the scientific data compiled on both the Fukushima and Chernobyl future deaths due to radiation cancers?
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Why do you think I haven't? In fact, I've read further: enough to discover that the premise on which those calculations are based - the so-called Linear No Threshold model - is false. Even if the calculations are done honestly, it's an example of garbage in, garbage out.
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You seem to be supporting that with disregard to the scientific data!
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No. I'm sorry, but you're the one ignoring scientific data. As for instance the LNT model above: it was picked out of the air (as a worst-case hypothesis) in the early days of nuclear research. The anti-nuclear types cling to it because of its value as a scare tactic, even though the evidence contradicts it.
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Please do not say derogatory comments about my character!
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I wasn't aware that I had. If my expressed opinion of certain classes of people, such as those who hold opinions based on faith rather than evidence, bothers you, there's a simple solution: stop being one of those people. Look at the science with an open mind. I did, way back when. Got the same "Omigawd, it's radioactive!" indoctrination in my youth (along with many other things). Wasn't until later that I learned to think for myselfr.