Dumping 1M gallons of radioactive water in Hudson is 'best option,' per Indian Point nuclear owner

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3. But burning fossil fuels, dumping the waste into the planetary atmosphere to make hydrogen...

...to satiate stupid fantasies, putting up stupid Potemkin pictures of wilderness destroyed with solar arrays that will be electronic waste in 20 years is a good idea.

Does anyone in the stupidity squad ever report how many people died from radiation exposure from nuclear plants in the last twenty years?

What is death toll from radiation from Fukushima? How does it compare to the death toll from seawater in the same event?

How is it that the anti-nuke hydrogen car worshipping set doesn't give a rat's ass about the 18,000 people who will die today from air pollution?

Since Fukushima, about 80 million people died from air pollution.

Is there some point at which anti-nukes will give a shit about these dead? There isn't? They don't read scientific publications like the one that follows?

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).

An excerpt:

The top five risks for attributable deaths for females were high SBP (5·25 million [95% UI 4·49–6·00] deaths, or 20·3% [17·5–22·9] of all female deaths in 2019), dietary risks (3·48 million [2·78–4·37] deaths, or 13·5% [10·8–16·7] of all female deaths in 2019), high FPG (3·09 million [2·40–3·98] deaths, or 11·9% [9·4–15·3] of all female deaths in 2019), air pollution (2·92 million [2·53–3·33] deaths or 11·3% [10·0–12·6] of all female deaths in 2019), and high BMI (2·54 million [1·68–3·56] deaths or 9·8% [6·5–13·7] of all female deaths in 2019). For males, the top five risks differed slightly. In 2019, the leading Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths globally in males was tobacco (smoked, second-hand, and chewing), which accounted for 6·56 million (95% UI 6·02–7·10) deaths (21·4% [20·5–22·3] of all male deaths in 2019), followed by high SBP, which accounted for 5·60 million (4·90–6·29) deaths (18·2% [16·2–20·1] of all male deaths in 2019). The third largest Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths among males in 2019 was dietary risks (4·47 million [3·65–5·45] deaths, or 14·6% [12·0–17·6] of all male deaths in 2019) followed by air pollution (ambient particulate matter and ambient ozone pollution, accounting for 3·75 million [3·31–4·24] deaths (12·2% [11·0–13·4] of all male deaths in 2019), and then high FPG (3·14 million [2·70–4·34] deaths, or 11·1% [8·9–14·1] of all male deaths in 2019).

It would be interesting if the critics of the last best hope for providing humanity with primary energy, instead of junk cartoons about storing useless so called "renewable energy" with hydrogen, batteries, and other destructive energy storage fantasies that have done nothing to address climate change, could find as many people that will die from radiation at Fukushima reported in the primary scientific literature - not cartoonish internet bullshit - as will die from air pollution in the next six hours, their big stupid boogeyman. That would be around 4500 dead.

There are lots and lots and lots and lots of papers on radiation at Fukushima in the primary scientific literature. I have lots of them in my files, because I read the scientific literature.

But they can't find these radiation deaths. And even if they did, they still wouldn't give a shit about the 80,000,000 million people who died from air pollution while they whined stupidly and incessantly about Fukushima, this in contempt for humanity.

As for hydrogen bullshit, this data still applies, just as it has for the last 50 years.



The caption:

Figure 1. Global current sources of H2 production (a), and H2 consumption sectors (b).

Progress on Catalyst Development for the Steam Reforming of Biomass and Waste Plastics Pyrolysis Volatiles: A Review Laura Santamaria, Gartzen Lopez, Enara Fernandez, Maria Cortazar, Aitor Arregi, Martin Olazar, and Javier Bilbao, Energy & Fuels 2021 35 (21), 17051-17084]

It is, of course, unsurprising to hear anti-nukes cheer for coal, oil and gas, with the cute little hydrogen shell game on the cover. It's been their chief course of action in the last 20 years here and elsewhere, a period where the concentration of CO2 in the planetary atmosphere rose by about 50 ppm to around 420 ppm.

These people lack, even at the most primitive level, a sense of decency, as always.