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Monday, February 11, 2013
Radiation Is Not A Big Deal
The UNSCEAR report says that the Linear-No-Threshold assumption about radiation effects doesn't stand up. Notably, it also points out that there are no deaths attributable to the Fukushima power plant meltdown. Nada. Not one.
Unlike the critics, nuclear power advocates have to produce something that actually works. And they do that. Every day. The nuclear power safety record is real. And it is better by far than that of fossil energy. Nuclear power does not contribute to global warming.
The critics have fantasies, guesses, and suppositions, but sadly, no evidence. That is no way to run public policy.
2 comments:
This is a lie - it doesn't say that at all.
Go do some proper resarch.
"no deaths attributable to the Fukushima power plant meltdown. Nada. Not one." - no it says none attributable directly to radiation so far.
The likelihood of the deaths happening in the short term is low - the cancers will show up later as cancers generally do.
The UNSCEAR report uses a very narrow definition of what it can count as attributable - so any other effects and/or deaths are not counted.
Spin and lies - such is the nuclear lobby.
Unlike the critics, nuclear power advocates have to produce something that actually works. And they do that. Every day. The nuclear power safety record is real. And it is better by far than that of fossil energy. Nuclear power does not contribute to global warming.
The critics have fantasies, guesses, and suppositions, but sadly, no evidence. That is no way to run public policy.
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