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4. Anyone who's got a fetish about the alledged "danger"...
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 12:14 PM
Oct 2023

Last edited Tue Oct 31, 2023, 03:08 PM - Edit history (2)

...of nuclear energy is invited to show that in the 70 year history of commercial nuclear energy, it has killed as many people with radiation exposure as will die in the next six hours from air pollution, about 4500 people.

Note, only peer reviewed papers from the respectable primary scientific literature can be accepted as evidence.

No journalist tripe can be accepted.

What is "dangerous" is antinuke paranoia. It kills about 80 million people every decade, in the form of air pollution, not that antinukes give a rat's ass about fossil fuels, climate change, energy justice, sustainability, and health.

Portable nuclear energy has a history of about half a century, on spacecraft and ships. There is no evidence that it is as dangerous as climate change, some of which is the result of the appalling and deadly selective attention of poorly educated and poorly informed antinukes.

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