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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)Shades of Monte Python and the Holy Grail.
The scientific community DISCREDITS the self-serving claims that hundreds of thousands of people will die due to Chernobyl. As pointed out in the documentary "Pandora's Promise", there are lots of people who returned to their homes and are living in the quarantined zone. They don't have particularly high rates of cancer.
Science tells us that a Chernobyl-scale effect will NOT happen with Fukushima. Here's the testimony of the emminent health physicist Dr. John Boice in his testimony on Fukushima to Congress:
http://hps.org/documents/John_Boice_Testimony_13_May_2011.pdf
The above poster gives me another chance to reiterate my anti-nuke IQ Test:
Suppose I have a given amount of radioactive material; "X" Bq of radioactivity and the following cases:
A) I take 1 gallon of water from the ocean and dissolve the "X" Bq in it; and dump it back into the ocean.
B) I take 100 gallons of water from the ocean and dissolve the "X" Bq in it; and dump it back into the ocean.
C) I take 10,000 gallons of water from the ocean and dissolve the "X" Bq in it; and dump it back into the ocean.
D) I take 1,000,000 gallons of water from the ocean and dissolve the "X" Bq in it; and dump it back into the ocean.
Now for the anti-nuke IQ Test; which of the above cases is the worst; ( or are they all the same ).
The answer to that question will give one an indication of the IQ of the anti-nuke.
The anti-nukes just LOVE to quote how many gallons of water; but for some reason, they shy away from telling the ACTUAL AMOUNT of radioactivity. I "wonder" why that is? (NOT!!)
YES - I am most emphatically denying that they are anything like "ticking time bombs".
They are the detritus of a major accident; and have to be cleaned up.
However, NO LEGITIMATE scientist would refer to them as anything like "ticking time bombs".
The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
PamW