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NNadir

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11. It wiped out the planet. Everybody on Earth died. Thank God that our antinukes were right...
Mon May 15, 2023, 05:20 PM
May 2023

...that climate change, the death of about 80 million people from air pollution since Fukushima and the destruction of the planetary atmosphere didn't matter, because Fukushima plutonium killed the entire planet.

The intellectual and moral vapidity boggles the imagination.

Congrats Antinukes:

Death by climate change

How hot weather kills: the rising public health dangers of extreme heat

City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America

While people who have never opened a science book in their lives had plutonium fetishes, the whole fucking planet burst into flames.

In this respect, antinukes are exactly like antivaxxers, carrying on, irrespective of how many people their ignorance kills, with exactly that, their ignorance. Antivaxxers of course, haven't killed anywhere near as many people. Air pollution kills about 18,000 people a day, and has been doing so for decades.

I, of course, do open science books, and have written about plutonium (geo)chemistry in response to one of the many people here who just don't give a shit about human life or the future of the planet: 828 Underground Nuclear Tests, Plutonium Migration in Nevada, Dunning, Kruger, Strawmen, and Tunnels

Of course, suggesting an antinuke read anything with references to the primary scientific literature is rather like asking Robert F. Kennedy to open a book about virology.

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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
iijio Martinez8889 May 2023 #10
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