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NNadir

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8. It would be interesting if people were as concerned with fossil fuel exposures...
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:45 AM
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...as they are with nuclear related exposures.

In the next hour about 800 people will die on this planet from air pollution.

I would be interested to learn, in the 69th year of commercial nuclear power operations in the United States, with reference to the primary scientific literature of a death toll from nuclear opeartions in this country that comes close to that rate.

I issue this challenge often here and I have yet to receive a satisfactory reply. In fact nuclear operations have a spectacular record of low environmental and health impact.

While I certainly support radiation safety, a subject on which my son's girlfriend is working for her Ph.D, I strongly object to selective attention.

There is overkill in reaction to the words "nuclear" and "radioactive." The absurdity of this attitude is to consider the coal, oil, and gas burned, killing people as these combustion facilities operated normally, to power computers to carry on about tritium releases at Fukushima.

Nuclear energy saves lives. This is a fact, because fossil fuel energy kills in vast numbers, on a scale of millions of people per year. Every nuclear plant operating on this planet displaces coal and gas, the emissions of which are destroying the planet at an accelerating rate.

Nuclear energy need not be risk free to be safer than everything else. It only needs to be safer than everything else.

If the orange pedophile's administration declares that orange juice is orange, that doesn't make it blue.

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This maladminstration is worse than Wrongway Feldon UpInArms Yesterday #1
Well that's a disturbing headline kerouac2 Yesterday #2
No way will that hold in court angrychair Yesterday #3
More from the article: mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday #5
Seems obvious, right? yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #15
I posted about this in GD to highlight that this was done as a favor for the AI bros: highplainsdem Yesterday #4
A nation is not just real estate... GiqueCee Yesterday #6
He gets off on gore and death. yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #16
Dump: Who cares about nuclear safety anyway? sakabatou Yesterday #7
It would be interesting if people were as concerned with fossil fuel exposures... NNadir Yesterday #8
That's comforting Bayard Yesterday #9
It will be fossil fuels that destroy the natural world as we know it and kill billions of people. hunter 23 hrs ago #10
What about the nuclear plant construction costs and the waste fuel. DougBee 21 hrs ago #11
Welcome to DU ! KS Toronado 21 hrs ago #12
Integrating solar and wind power into a reliable electric grid is expensive. hunter 19 hrs ago #13
Why do I keep reading and hearing KS Toronado 3 hrs ago #19
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #20
A VERY big deal. Expect another lawsuit that the regime will lose. pat_k 16 hrs ago #14
Such a big deal - for many reasons. yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #18
You say, "Paperwork." I hear, "Profit." Kid Berwyn 16 hrs ago #17
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