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In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)intaglio states
You claim that entire towns have not been destroyed, but ignore the fact that they cannot be inhabited, whereas if town are destroyed they can be rapidly rebuilt and rapidly inhabited.
intaglio,
This is WRONG
As University of California - Berkeley Physics Professor Richard Muller points out in:
The Panic Over Fukushima
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444772404577589270444059332
The radiation level in Fukushima ( excluding the immediate vicinity of the plants ) is ONE-THIRD the radiation level in Denver, Colorado that Denver gets from NATURAL sources, principally the Uranium in the granite that underlies Denver.
The USA allows people to live in Denver where the radiation level is THREE TIMES what it is in most of Fukushima.
So how is Fukushima "uninhabitable"? It's only "uninhabitable" by government decree based on the hysteria fostered by the anti-nukes.
Japan once had two cities that were obliterated and neutron-irradiated ( making fallout ) by two atomic bombs; Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fortunately back then, Japan didn't have the uneducated anti-nukes to foster hysteria about radiation. In a few months, Japan started rebuilding and resettling Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they have been inhabited for the last 60 years.
The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
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