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2. It's interesting that no one ever discusses the toxic benzopyrans, benzofurans, benzodioxins...
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 09:25 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:57 AM - Edit history (1)

...routinely killing hundreds of thousands people per year...being only three of the constituents that kill seven million people each year from air pollution...and don't leak, but pour out of dangerous fossil fuel plants.

The fact that people burn oil, gas, and petroleum to generate the power to run computers to print this pathetic garbage is a very, very, very, very, telling reason why the atmosphere is collapsing at the incredible rate being observed in 2016 at Mauna Loa.

"215 times higher than normal" does translate into "harmful." There are tritium labeled RIA kits that are thousands, even tens of thousands "higher than normal."

In fact, everywhere on the planet, back in 1963, at the height of nuclear testing, the entire planet was hundreds of times "normal" and still it seems that the world population continued to grow, while life expectancy increased dramatically.

What's "normal" is that people insist that every damn thing on the planet can kill at will because nuclear energy isn't perfect. Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly superior to everything else, to save lives that otherwise would be lost to air pollution. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, and been has saving lives, it's saved close to 2 million of them as reported, not by some dumb assed reporter who never passed a science course in his life, but by one of the world's premier climate scientists.

Nuclear Energy Saves Lives

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