Starting with carbon dioxide, not to mention all the toxic shit like lead and mercury that have a "half life" of FREAKING FOREVER.
The "waste" argument is absurd. There's just not that much nuclear waste in the world compared to all the other equally toxic crap industrial society spews freely into the air, water, and soil.
Anyone who drives a car or flies in a plane to an antinuclear rally is the worst sort of hypocrite because they'll be spewing carcinogenic and toxic micro-particles the entire way there and back, not to mention climate-wrecking greenhouse gasses, or all the mining, refining, and recycling wastes generated by the automobile and aircraft industries. The same folks who fret about inconsequential amounts of tritium pay no attention at all to the fossil fuel toxins they breathe, drink, eat, and bathe in.
No, I am not a booster of nuclear power. Instead I'm some kind of Luddite, and not a successful one. I can't even convince people in my own family to get rid of their cars or refrigerators. Best I do is avoid buying any manufactured goods new; not cars, not cell phones, not computers, not solar panels for my roof. I'll make exceptions for things like underwear and socks, or the occasional LED lamp to replace a fluorescent, but I'm not always successful in my thrift store shopping and dumpster diving.
If we were a rational species we'd simply ban fossil fuels and see how things shake out. Simply tear down all the fossil fueled power plants and oil refineries, sorry folks, against the law. But we won't. And most assuredly the storms on the horizon, and the storms that are killing people right now, today, and causing this great mass extinction, are NOT a consequence of nuclear power. Even accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima are small curiosities compared to the daily carnage of fossil fuel use.
This civilization is going to die, simply because is not sustainable. Maybe we can see it off gently, like hospice care as opposed to the violations of aggressive surgeons and intensive care units, pursuing the vain belief it can be saved, or worse than that a violent suicide by war, defending religions and ideologies that the universe pays no heed.
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