My snide superior attitude, which is very real, is based on the fact that I regard people who engage in Pavlovian rote evocation of "waste" and "Fukushima" (and/or) "Chernobyl" as being people who are simply engaged in narrow minded selective attention.
In the last several decades, going back to Chernobyl around 1986, after which I slowly changed my mind about nuclear power, I've encountered this sort of arrogant shorthand repeatedly.
And I resent it.
You are perfectly free, of course, to not consider participating in my threads if you consider that my personality suggests that I have nothing useful to say.
I will, however, continue - most likely in a dismissive tone - whether you participate or not to insist that Jim Hansen is correct when he points out that even with Fukushima, etc, nuclear energy saves lives, and that it is the most effective way most likely the only way to address climate change, and that it therefore ridiculous to worry about nuclear wastes which don't kill people while ignoring fossil fuel wastes which do kill people.
Enjoy the rest of the week.
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