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hunter

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18. There's plenty of good reasons to oppose nuclear power.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 12:02 PM
Sep 2015

This accident isn't one of them.

At this point there is no signal to be found in all the noise.

The nuclear accident was a one of the less toxic events within a great playground of toxic horrors.

I think too many anti-nuclear activists become the feckless accomplices of the fossil fuel industry, a distraction from much more horrific daily fossil fuel catastrophes, including now a planetary climate that is becoming less hospitable to human life.

I'm some kind of Luddite myself. I'd like to erase some of the major technical achievements of the twentieth century: Large scale electric grids, the interstate highway system, frivolous air travel, etc. etc..

Okay, I'm not a lunatic, but it's a thought experiment that helps me imagine what a low energy high technology society might look like.

Here's a video you might enjoy:



http://www.etec.energy.gov/Library/Video/Video_index.html

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Sad, having to read foreign papers for important news missing from US press. Octafish Sep 2015 #1
First they came for sputniknews... SidDithers Sep 2015 #2
Emoticons are so you. Octafish Sep 2015 #4
the picture is a pair of cooling towers.... Mustellus Sep 2015 #8
How do we stay informed when those in charge cover up the harm done? Generic Other Sep 2015 #9
I met a freshman in college last month who never heard of Fukushima. Octafish Sep 2015 #14
They think making fun of people is scientific method Generic Other Sep 2015 #16
Labeling is a propaganda tool, a sign of a most undemocratic and unscientific post. Octafish Sep 2015 #21
Did you read what's underneath the picture? Octafish Sep 2015 #13
Bookmarking. Duppers Sep 2015 #5
My friend's parent both died of cancer within 4 years of 3 Mile Island GreatGazoo Sep 2015 #11
sputnik. LOL...nt SidDithers Sep 2015 #3
Yes, they are. nt bemildred Sep 2015 #6
Chernobyl was a steam explosion followed by a graphite fire.... Mustellus Sep 2015 #7
This is BS. hunter Sep 2015 #10
+1. bemildred Sep 2015 #12
None of what you mention here sounds like BS to me Generic Other Sep 2015 #15
There's plenty of good reasons to oppose nuclear power. hunter Sep 2015 #18
The video suggests the government used to be more transparent Generic Other Sep 2015 #20
That entire site was an environmental nightmare hack89 Sep 2015 #19
Thanks for posting Omaha Steve Sep 2015 #17
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