| In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Another New Nuclear Reactor Energizes U.S. Clean Energy Hopes, hopespringseternal wrote: |
So far there appears to be one person who died from radiation as a result of Fukushima. Depends on who counts the deaths from radiation, doesn't it? For Chernobyl the initial death toll was 31, with about 60 dying later of radiation induced cancer. Depends on who counts the deaths from radiation, doesn't it? You seem to be unaware that you are continuously being zapped by cosmic rays, and the radiation exposure from flying a passenger jet far exceeds the residual radiation exposure anyone has from either accident. You seem to be astoundingly ignorant of the difference between cosmic rays during a 2 hr passenger jet flight and hundreds of thousands of years of populations consuming radioactive waste in the air/food/water. Astoundingly ignorant. Compare that to Bhopal where nearly 4000 died. Drop in the bucket compared with the true and continuing toll of Fukushima and or Chernobyl. Note that the horrific chemical damage cleared quickly compared with the ability of the radioactive waste to kill and/or sicken for 100s of thousands of years. How about the Banqiao dam failure that killed 100,000? Clean hydro power! Drop in the bucket compared with Fukushima and or Chernobyl. I wonder if at least the dam engineers had to accept responsibility, or do they skate free of the human suffering? And note, floods don't have the half life of Uranium. Compared to that, nuclear accidents are more on the Great Molasses Flood scale of deaths. (21 dead) Depends on who counts the deaths from radiation, doesn't it? Your fear is irrational. Your minimization of generational suffering and death is unconscionable. |
You are funny. Hundreds of thousands of years? Something that takes that long to decay can only be considered radioactive in an academic sense. Your flight is far worse. When it comes to radiation, if it takes a long time to decay it isn't emitting much and isn't dangerous. If it decays quickly it is dangerous, but only for a short time.
Your hyperventilating about Fukushima and Chernobyl is especially pathetic considering you can't even provide statistics, much less the graves of all those who supposedly died. They exist only in your mind.
How are Hiroshima and Nagasaki doing these days?