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NNadir

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8. How come nobody ever visits a coal plant before it releases stuff that's actually harmful?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon May 15, 2023, 05:26 AM

May 2023

Oh I know why, because coal plants continuously without stop release deadly materials whenever they operate normally, so people are lulled by ordinary experience into a deadly lull.

Air pollution kills 7 million people every year. (Nuclear power prevents air pollution.)

The electricity expended by people carrying on using their computers, overwhelmingly generated by the use of dangerous fossil fuel power plants, which release deadly waste whenever they operate - although no one gives a rat's ass how many people are killed by dangerous fossil fuel waste - will almost surely kill more people than the tritium in the seawater about to be released at Fukushima.

This number can be reasonably be expected to be around the the same death toll from the rest of the reactor's radioactive releases over the last 12 years of antinuke hysterical thrills - roughly zero.

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Japan, South Korea agree on visit to Fukushima nuclear plant ahead of planned water release [View all] Omaha Steve May 2023 OP

Another serious cluster-F the world ignored. Irish_Dem May 2023 #1

I have never been able to understand why we build nuclear power plants next to the oceans. Lasher May 2023 #2

The San Onofre state beach has 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste buried underneath it, a byproduct womanofthehills May 2023 #3

Shouldn't the release be reviewed by the IAEA or some other body with deep expertise? JudyM May 2023 #4

"saying it's an unavoidable step" - no, just the less expensive step NullTuples May 2023 #5

So, expect massive marine animal kills there Bayard May 2023 #6

There won't be marine animal kills from this release NickB79 May 2023 #7

It will probably be beneficial to marine life if it discourages fishing. hunter May 2023 #17

How come nobody ever visits a coal plant before it releases stuff that's actually harmful? NNadir May 2023 #8

We are basically screwed- even our own military is a huge polluter womanofthehills May 2023 #15

Whatever happened to the Fukushima Unit 3 plutonium? Kid Berwyn May 2023 #9

It wiped out the planet. Everybody on Earth died. Thank God that our antinukes were right... NNadir May 2023 #11

So, no answer about plutonium. Why so condescending? Kid Berwyn May 2023 #12

I really have no time whatsoever to brook a conversation about... NNadir May 2023 #13

Still zip on plutonium. Thanks on the stats! Kid Berwyn May 2023 #14

I really have no time or interest in learning about antinukes. NNadir May 2023 #16

How much plutonium does it take to overdose a person? Kid Berwyn May 2023 #20

I used to be an anti-nuclear activist, and a radical one at that. hunter May 2023 #18

Tsunami was horrific. So is an atmosphere contaminated with radioactive dust. Kid Berwyn May 2023 #22

I don't automatically respect anyone's religious views. hunter May 2023 #23

Corporate media seldom mention plutonium or Karen Silkwood. Kid Berwyn May 2023 #24

Either slagged in the bottom of the reactor, or washed out to sea NickB79 May 2023 #19

And to the four winds. Kid Berwyn May 2023 #21

We've scattered 3.5 tons of plutonium across the planet from 1945-1990 NickB79 May 2023 #25

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