A Commentary on Failure, Delusion and Faith: Danish Data on Big Wind Turbines and Their Lifetimes.

[NNadir]

15. So your Dad was a scientist? You did a high school project?.

Consider me unimpressed.

The supposition that we should accept seven million deaths per year from air pollution because of fetishes about radiation is, in my view, ethically obscene.

Nuclear energy need not be without risk to be vastly superior to everything else. It need not address the concerns of high school students to be vastly superior to everything else.

It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else to be - I regret the need for a tautology but one must consider the level at which this discussion is taking place - vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

Right now Europe is burning. People are dying all over the planet from exposure to extreme heat, and still someone feels the need to discuss the radioactive nitrate explosion at Mayak in 1957? There are 25,000 references to Mayak in Google Scholar. I invite any and all head up the ass radiation paranoid people to find one of them that indicates a death toll over the last 65 years from Mayak equivalent to that of the number of people who will die in the next ten hours from air pollution.

One need not add the deaths from extreme weather to the list of people killed by the very dangerous obsessions of antinukes.

For the record, I also have a son. His first non medical exposure to human produced radiation was at the neutron spallation source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Some kids do better at learning from their parents than others.

Ignorance kills people, antinuke ignorance being high on the list of the most deadly forms it takes.