Fukushima is Heating Pacific Ocean

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18. How did I just know that you were going to go there?

If I tell you that blowing really hard (which coincidentally is what you're doing with all that hot air) cannot can't change the prevailing wind direction... you'll come right back and say "you are now suggesting that expelling air from my lungs doesn't actually move air? Amazing" - and you won't even see how foolish you look. I tell you that your single-serving coffee machine won't do much to warm up an olympic swimming pool...and you come back with "now you're telling me that my coffee isn't hot!"

No... I'm not saying that a reactor can't warm up water. I'm saying that they produce a quantifiable amount of heat and that number is dwarfed by the number necessary to raise tens of thousands of square miles of ocean by a few degrees... even if you pretend that it's just the top few inches of water by some miracle.

There is a nuclear reaction driving all of this... but that's way over your head.

Here is something you may consider... the Fukushima heated water is fresh water. Chemically, it resists mixing with salt water and so it floats on the top of salt water until it is mixed by wind and wave.

Wow... so all those rivers that flow into the sea end up with fresh water just on top for hundreds and hundreds of miles? Goodness! And when the fresh water is released from below the surface (as this necessarily would be)... it floats to the top?

What we now have is massive amounts of radioactive fresh water flowing into the ocean.

Don't forget to add that it's magical radioactive fresh water. Because it isn't being caught by all of those radiation sensors they've been running offshore for over two years now.

You forget that ocean water is already radioactive naturally. At one point the Japanese were actually talking about mining uranium from the ocean since they have so little of it of their own. "This is a new experience" is not an excuse to just make up the science as you go along and pretend that it's valid.

Let's try this one more time. Operating reactors (as well as coal-fired plants) waste roughly 2/3rds of their heat. Hundreds of them demo that heat right into rivers/lakes/oceans. Why are we not seeing those plumes literally all over the planet? A plant on a small river can raise the temperature of that river slightly (which is why France sometimes shuts some down in really hot weather)... but the currents running offshore those reactors are comparable in volume to the Gulf Stream. Dozens of times as much water flowing as every river on the planet combined. You're spitting in the wind.

Congratulations on your continued efforts to make anti-nukes look like fools. You couldn't do a better job if someone was actually paying your to do it.