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...that no other form of energy can meet.
There are seven million people dying every year, each year, from air pollution, constantly, without let up, while shit for brain people are still crying over radiation releases from Fukushima.
Millions of people die each year because we don't spend a dime on cleaning up fecal matter, but we'll spend billions of dollars to "clean up" a radioactive site so dumb shit radiation paranoids will have radiation exposure less than that of a dental x-ray.
842,000 deaths related to a lack of sanitation
If we built nuclear plants exactly the way we built them in the 1960's the risk of death from them in the next ten decades from thousands of them would not be nearly equivalent connected to the risks associated with what dangerous fossil fuels will kill this week.
I note that this kind of stupidity - these criticisms that nuclear energy is "too slow" is very popular with the set of people who prowl around the pop literature looking for lab scale "breakthroughs" for the useless, expensive, worthless and unsustainable so called "renewable energy" industry, which after half a century of mindless cheering has never been able to produce as much climate change free primary energy for which nuclear energy industry was able to build infrastructure in twenty years more than 30 years ago.
This selective attention is precisely why the dangerous fossil fuel waste is killing tens of millions of people every decade while accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at a rate that is accelerating into the complete destruction of the planet climate at an ever faster rate. We're now at the point where CO2 concentrations are rising a 3.00 ppm per year, whereas they were usually "only" 1.00 ppm in the 1970's, around the time that we all started hearing how the wonderful so called "renewable energy" industry would replace the nuclear industry, but not, tellingly, the dangerous fossil fuel industry.
It would be just, and slightly more intelligent, if critics of the nuclear industry who support the unreliable and rickety solar and wind industries would shut their mouths until their trillion dollar scan gets to half the primary energy of the nuclear energy, which is roughly 28 exajoules per year.
I've been hearing about the "renewable energy" miracle that will take place or could take place my entire adult life and, um, I'm not young.
In my lifetime, the carbon dioxide concentrations in the planetary atmosphere have risen close to 100 ppm, and I attribute this to all the assholes who sat around complaining that "nuclear energy is too slow" while doing everything possible with their stupid rhetoric to make it slower by insipid remarks that it was "dangerous" while not looking at the numbers for solar and wind, not to mention dangerous fossil fuels. As I often say, these people are nothing less than arsonists complaining about forest fires."
They deliberately trashed the work of some of the finest minds of the twentieth century because they were incompetent to do simple mathematics or learn basic science.
They bet the planetary atmosphere on technologies that have not worked, are not working, and will not work, while offering idiotic platitudes like, um, Hydrogen Cars May Hit Showrooms by 2005.
Abraham Lincoln once said something very wise: "Of all God's creatures, the chicken is the wisest; it only cackles after it has laid an egg."
The anti-nuke advocates of the failed solar and wind industries have laid down lots of manure, and cackled quite a bit, but the real results are written in the planetary atmosphere. No one alive today will ever see readings below 400 ppm of CO2 on this planet again.
History, should history survive, will not forgive this ignorance; nor should it.
Have a nice weekend.
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