... and will eventually bring misery and untimely deaths to billions of us.
Fossil fuels are killing people today. Air pollution and global warming are killing people today.
But oh, let's panic about nuclear power!
Lazy journalists keep calling upon the Union of Concerned Scientists for comment, I don't know why. It's a group of mostly non-scientists little better than other crap charities and non-profits that spend most of the money they get on self-promotion.
I used to be an anti-nuclear activist, the kind of radical who might make many moderate people nervous even here on the Democratic "Underground." Eventually I did the math and now I'm not.
Do I trust the Trump Administration to adequately regulate any potentially dangerous industry? No. But there are worse things to come beyond poorly regulated industries if we don't flush these fascists and criminals out of our government. They have demonstrated that they are willing to kill, imprison, and deport people in their quest for greater political power. They are far, far scarier than any tritium emissions from the nuclear cleanup at Fukushima or used nuclear fuel stored safely in robust containers..
Humanity is caught between a rock and a hard place. This planet cannot support eight billion people without high density energy resources. The only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely, which we must do soon, is nuclear power. Anti-nuclear activism is just another flavor of climate change denial. The biggest beneficiary of anti-nuclear activism is the filthy natural gas industry which claims it will be an important component of some energy "transition." But the energy transition people celebrate is a lie. It's not happening and it won't happen.
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