Operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant prepares to restart another plant

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9. Link #2 to information that will not change the mind of any member of the Fukushima cult.

I apologize, again, as in the first case, that it's not from some dumb shit antinuke sociologist handing out conspiracy theories being cited by another antinuke who couldn't give a rat's ass about climate change, but rather from the primary scientific literature but it is what it is.

Nuclear power generation phase-outs redistribute US air quality and climate-related mortality risk. Nat Energy 8, 492–503 (2023).

From the text:

Closure of all nuclear power plants across the United States (no nuclear) leads to more mortalities due to air pollution and climate compared to a baseline scenario (base). There are an additional 5,200 annual mortalities due to changes in PM2.5 and ozone under no nuclear. These health impacts are a similar order of magnitude as those estimated in studies on the impact of proposed carbon policies such as the Clean Power Plan on air quality (3,500 avoided premature mortalities were projected to result if the Clean Power Plan were implemented)32. Compared to the base, there is a central estimate of 78,000–170,000 additional mortalities over the century due to the changes in CO2 emissions from 1?year of no nuclear. These mortalities compound with each year of continued emissions. Our scenarios do not account for changes in demographics over time, or changes in electricity demand, which is expected to increase with the electrification of transportation and buildings, thus putting more burden on the system if nuclear power is shut down.

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The authors are from MIT, but I'm sure that there are plenty of dumb shit antinuke sociologists around to offer up a conspiracy theory that they're involved in a cover up.

I fully realize however, that this link to scientific information will not impress any members of a dogmatic cult, because no amount of information can address a cult or the dogma it hands out.

It's a waste of time to try to educate the uneducable.

Ignorance kills people, and as ignorance goes, antivaxxers, a similar set of ignoramuses who carry on about subjects about which they know nothing, can't hold a candle to antinukes, whose death toll in the time they've been whining stupidly about Fukushima has led to around 90 million air pollution deaths, not even counting climate change.

Have a nice evening.