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19. Yes, I believe in a round earth and dangerous sunshine.
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:11 PM
Oct 2012

Sunshine kills more people every year than Fukushima has killed, or will ever kill. These are the facts, my friend, and bold type and exclamation points do nothing to change that.

Your attempt to put radiation from Fukushima in its own class ('F' radiation) is nonsense. It's exactly the same kind of radiation as in the soil you walk upon and the food you eat every day.

The two reactor buildings blew "sky-high" because of a hydrogen explosion - a chemical reaction. Hydrogen was created when the cladding of the fuel rods in the reactor melted and reacted with water. Though hydrogen explosions can be powerful, this has nothing to do with a nuclear chain reaction:



As to your claim that "The science has not yet determined what the effects will be" of radiation, there is actually a great deal of science on what the long term effects are. The effects from Fukushima are, and will be, statistically insignificant.

Now - I've provided links to back up my point of view. If you want to continue this discussion you can provide some of your own, and the thoroughly discredited and debunked crap from Fairewinds won't cut it.

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