Seven million people die each year from dangerous fossil fuel and dangerous biomass combustion waste.
I'm waiting for a race of people who care more about that fact than their idiot terror of radioactive atoms.
You know, it's interesting how many people are stuck in the 1950's, thinking that what applied then applies now. I note that all these "unbelievable tragedies" at reprocessing plants haven't killed very many people, although people with no science background whatsoever obsess about them, less so when an oil refinery blows up, or an oil well blows out, say, in the Gulf of Mexico, killing people.
Selective attention? Moral indifference?
How is the clean up of the Gulf of Mexico going. Know any smart guys making bank scraping asphaltenes and tars off the floor of the Gulf?
There was actually an idiot here, now on my ignore list, who claimed that the collapse of a tunnel at Hanford was an unbelievable tragedy, and the deaths of seven million people in 2018, soon to be matched in 2019 from air pollution, um, wasn't.
Here is the most recent full report from the Global Burden of Disease Report, a survey of all causes of death and disability from environmental and lifestyle risks: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (Lancet 2016; 388: 1659–724) One can easily locate in this open sourced document compiled by an international consortium of medical and scientific professionals how many people die from causes related to air pollution, particulates, ozone, etc.
Why don't you commiserate with the tunnel asshole to find out how many people died from exposure to Hanford?
People make a lot of money on nuclear clean ups to save zero lives because there are a lot of very, very, very, very stupid people who live in dire fear of radioactivity, even though they would die without radioactivity in their bodies, since potassium is an essential atom and it contains radioactive potassium-40 naturally.
There is 750 tons of plutonium roughly in US nuclear fuel. World energy demand is currently about 578 exajoules per year. In order to meet the world energy demand, thus eliminating every coal mine, every oil well, every gas fracking field, every fucking wind turbine industrial park set up in pristine wildernesses to satisfy shit for brains people, every damn dam, and every piece of future electronic waste in the solar industry, it would be required to fission about 230 grams of plutonium per second. In a "breed and burn" reactor of which several types have been designed, this would enable humanity to live for centuries with uranium already mined.
his would save 70 million lives lost every decade to air pollution, and eliminate the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide that is destroying the whole fucking planet while airheads prattle on about Hanford.
By contrast with 230 grams of plutonium persecond, at 35 billion tons of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide being dumped each year while airheads prattle on about Hanford, the dumping amounts to about 1100 tons per second.
I have, I confess, never met an anti-nuke who could grasp simple numbers and do simple calculations though.
If someone can't grasp that obvious environmental advantage of those mass ratios, I really, really, really, can't help them, since they are way beyond the possibility of becoming educated human beings.
Does that answer your question?
No?
I couldn't fucking care less about whether or not it does, but I am concerned about the 19,000 people who will die today because anti-nukes have their heads up their asses and have never, in their overly long lives, opened a fucking science book or a scientific paper.
Recently, thinking of the airhead who was having a panic attack because an old train tunnel containing some abandoned chemical reactors with trace plutonium on the walls collapsed, I wrote the following:
One of the interesting facets if one is to ponder this quality of thinking, which is Trumpian the depth of its delusion and the inherent gaslit (literally) lies such thinking involves, is the amusing fact that it is easy to insert one's head very far up one's ass if one's brains are soft, small, and largely empty.
That about sums it up.
In the ten minutes it took to write this post, 13 or 14 people
died from air pollution. How many people died at Hanford from radiation in the last ten years again?
Ignorance kills people.
History will not forgive us, nor should it.
Have a nice day.
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