Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Radiation from Fukushima Will Be 10 Times Bigger than All Radiation from Nuclear Tests Combined [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)darkangel states
I lived through Chernobyl. No one, not you, not that poster nor anyone else, could possibly be effective in convincing me that nuclear power is safe.
What utter and complete HOGWASH!!!
DA, you didn't learn a DAMN thing because you experienced the Chernobyl accident.
It's like someone who survives the crash of an airliner; are they now experts in aerodynamics?
Really, suppose someone says all those people who survived the crash of the Asiana Boeing 777 are experts in aerodynamics because they survived an airliner crash.
That would be one of the stupidest, most braindead claims someone could make; that they somehow got some expertise in aerodynamics and was now an expert in airliner safety because they survived the Asiana Boeing 777 crash.
BALONEY - it just means that they were among the lucky of the unfortunate very few that were involved in an accident from the safest form of transportation we have.
You don't learn anything and your metal capabilities are NOT increased just because one is involved in an accident.
To claim otherwise is DISHONEST in the extreme.
Nothing is 100% safe, and if one is one of the unlucky few that doesn't make one an expert; it just makes them one of the unlucky.
Besides, the Chernobyl RBMK reactor was terribly flawed in design, and that was known prior to the accident.
It's like someone who survived the crash of the also flawed Hindenberg claiming now to be an expert on Boeing 777 safety.
The Boeing 777 is NOTHING like the Hindenberg; so it is ILLOGICAL to "think" that any experience from the Hindenberg accident translates into some expertise with regard to Boeing 777s.
I'm astonished that anyone would attempt to make such an outlandish and obviously WRONG claim.
PamW