The obvious fact is in the stupidity that is clear in the title: Anything that is measurable is by definition not "unimaginable."
This is just scare rhetoric.
In the 48 hours since the stupid fest at Daily Kos began, 16,000 people on this planet died from air pollution. Kossacks, including Markos couldn't care less about those people.
How many people died because a robot measured radiation levels in reactor 2?
As many as will die in the next hour from air pollution?
Did the fuel suddenly fall out yesterday, or has it been there since the reactors failed?
Does the discovery of a fact make it dangerous, or is the danger determined by, um, physics?
Is the total radioactivity in the reactor core higher or lower than it was in 2011? (This is a simple physics question which an average high school student should be competent to answer.)
How much exposure have human beings had to this measured radiation level?
The ocean contains 500 billion curies of potassium-40, the removal of which would cause all life in the ocean to cease. If we crowded all 500 billion curies into a building the size of the reactor, would the radiation levels be high or low?
Ignorance exists on both sides of the political spectrum, and the environmental assholes who run Kos - and let's be clear that this rhetoric kills people, since even including every single nuclear accident ever, including Fukushima, according to one of the most read papers in the primary scientific literature nuclear energy SAVES lives - are in fact, prima facie evidence of just how stupid people on the nominal left can be.
Neither the reporter who rote the article, or the fools talking it up at Kos know a damned thing about physics.
This is unsurprising. The "environmental" editor over there is Tim Lange, with whom I've had many very unpleasant interactions. Tim Lange - who in my view is a very poorly educated person discussing topics he knows nothing about, specifically issues in the environment and environmental justice - acts as if the 63 "extra" lung cancer deaths among native American uranium miners is somehow more tragic than the 70 million people who died from air pollution since 2006, 35 million of them since Fukushima was struck by an earthquake, an earthquake that killed 20,000 people, zero of whom died from radiation.
How come nobody complains about um, the danger of living in coastal cities, particularly in the age of climate change, climate change that is largely the result of the demonization of nuclear energy?
The Kos story is pure idiocy, as is the Guardian article it quotes. It is morally disgusting that this topic gets so much positive feedback, criminal actually.
When I pointed this out at Kos, the criminality, the management had, an unsurprising, Trumpian (kill the messenger) response. This is fine with me. Ignorance disgusts me, and as I age, I'm less and less tolerant of it, and frankly, I am at a point where I recognize that it will do what it will, and I may as well, as often as possible, ignore it, since raising my blood pressure will not do a damned thing to destroy it.
Ignorance, nevertheless - I still insist - kills.
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