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1. Basically, everything ever written by the Union of Concerned "Scientists" is...
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 01:43 PM
Jan 2019

...selective attention and trash.

The best approach is to raise every single pixilated question they prattle on about, waste, toxicity, accidents, blah, blah, blah and direct the very same questions at dangerous fossil fuels.

This goes for water use especially. If you think the only cooling towers in the world are on nuclear plants, you're not paying attention.

How about wars? How many people died in the same and only nuclear war from dangerous fossil fuels diverted to weapons of mass destruction? How many people died in the last century from dangerous fossil fuels diverted to weapons of mass destruction?

https://atomicinsights.com/plutonium-nuclear-war-nuclear-peace/

Dangerous fossil fuel terrorism? Nuclear terrorism?

The assumptions made by this dangerous set of so called "scientists" - the majority of them are no such thing - is that nuclear energy and only nuclear energy need be risk free, or worse technologies will be able to kill people at a vastly larger scale.

Nuclear technology need not be risk free to be vastly, incredibly, urgently superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly, incredibly, urgently superior to everything else, which it is.

Have a nice day.

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