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In reply to the discussion: Gundersen: 26 nuclear plants in area where Hurricane Sandy likely to hit — [View all]FBaggins
(28,706 posts)62. Long since answered multiple times.
I care quite a bit more about them than you do.
Unlike low levels of radiation, irrational fear actually does kill people. There are confirmed deaths caused by the panic/fear of the radiation from those reactors (and any number of deaths caused by turning off their other reactors resulting in power shortages). Panic/fear that shills like Gundersen spread to line their own pockets. Heck... there could have been people who died going out in Sandy when they became more afraid of what they were being told was just like what happened at Fukushima than they were afraid of an actual killer storm.
I prefer the truth. Arnie should try it some time.
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Gundersen: 26 nuclear plants in area where Hurricane Sandy likely to hit — [View all]
Kolesar
Oct 2012
OP
Gunderson is so full of shit it would be funny, if he wasn't terrifying people
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2012
#13
And when those measures occurred, the generating sources are taken offline.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2012
#30
And unlike many here presume, we have not been sitting on our hands since Fukushima
Throckmorton
Nov 2012
#34
I wonder how he feels about the possibility that teh nucular will turn the Earth into Venus?
GliderGuider
Nov 2012
#42