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4. It would be interesting if the world were as concerned about the mercury, lead, and, yes, uranium, discharged by coal...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 03:59 AM
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...plants as it is about Hanford.

I sometimes attribute the rise of insanity across the world - expressed as a rise in fascism among other things - is actually an outgrowth of heavy metal poisoning, Minamata disease on a global scale.

As for effects, if one looks, one can find that some of the highest life expectancy figures in the entire United States, are found in the Portland, Oregon region, at the mouth of the Columbia River. This may be in spite of Hanford rather than because of it, but is an indication that Hanford, which gets tons of commentary from antinukes, is not a disaster on the scale of extreme global heating.

As I often state, nuclear energy does not need to be risk free to be vastly superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

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