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NNadir

(38,543 posts)
Mon Dec 20, 2021, 01:45 PM Dec 2021

The difference between what you call "nuclear waste" and what I call...

...fossil fuel waste and others call "air pollution" and "climate change," is that used nuclear fuels have a spectacular record of not harming anyone.

Seven million people will die in 2022 from air pollution. I personally place responsibility for this outcome on the heads of people who prattle on about so called "nuclear waste" even as dangerous fossil fuel waste as left huge stretches of the planet in flames.

Used nuclear fuel is a key resource for the future of humanity, but one would be educated enough to understand this to get it.

Well educated antinukes are a very rare breed, and those who are educated are incapable of making simple risk comparisons.

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