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the Europe's largest nuclear power plant is under attack (Original Post) Finishline42 Mar 2022 OP
Someone, anyone, needs to take the Russians out NOW. ratchiweenie Mar 2022 #1
What do all the "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes suppose will happen? NNadir Mar 2022 #2

NNadir

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2. What do all the "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes suppose will happen?
Thu Mar 3, 2022, 10:49 PM
Mar 2022

Suppose the reactor is breached and melts.

Will any of the people who think Fukushima was the end of the world start caring about the seven million human beings who die every year from air pollution?

How many people died from radiation at Fukushima again?

I would suggest that the coal, gas and oil burned to run computers for assholes to wail and whine about Fukushima actually killed more people than radiation.

Our German, "nuclear energy is too dangerous, so lets send billions of dollars to Putin" friends have a carbon intensity of 465 g CO2/kwh as of this writing, greater than 465% higher than France's 95 g CO2 kwh. (3/4/22, 3:43 AM, Berlin time.)

If the savages cause the fuel to melt, will the death toll from radiation even remotely match the death toll from the coal Germany has been burning all winter?

Just because there are paranoid airheads who fear every radioactive atom in the environment doesn't mean that nuclear energy, and only nuclear energy needs to be perfect and without risk to be better than everything else.

Nuclear energy only needs to be better than everything else.

How come this summer, when people died from extreme heat in British Columbia, we had no "I'm not an anti-nuke" anti-nukes screaming in terror?

Could it be that they can't read, or think, or make simple comparisons?

With all due contempt, I believe this to be the case.

Every year, 7 million people die from the release of dangerous fossil fuel waste without one hysterical whimper here.

This is as morally appalling as any Russian thug could ever be.

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