If it leaked like a sieve it still wouldn't kill as many people as have been killed by the coal, oil and gas burned so complete fools - who clearly don't give a rat's ass about the more than six million people who die each year from air pollution - could carry on about a few Fukushima cesium-137 atoms in a tuna fish.
Every sensible person on the planet opposes nuclear weapons, but nuclear weapons waste has not been anywhere as near as dangerous as dangerous fossil fuel weapons.
Which killed more people in the last 75 years: Nuclear weapons or dangerous fossil fuel weapons?
It's not even close. The only nuclear war, which took place more than half a century ago in two cities, Hiroshima and Nakasaki, didn't kill, combined, as many people as died in single minor wars, the Iran-Iraq war, the second US-Iraq war, not to mention little adventures like Vietnam, and of course, the dangerous fossil fuel portion of the second World War.
How come we don't have shitheads burning coal and oil and gas to complain every time a few molecules of PAH's escape out of the exhaust of F-109 fighter jets? How come we don't ever hear of anti-nukes protesting napalm factories?
I am really, really, really, really amused whenever I hear an anti-nuke speaking of ignorance. According to Jim Hansen, I repeat, if the fear and ignorance continuously handed out by anti-nukes had been allowed to have been even worse than it was for the last half a century, close to 2 million more people would have died from air pollution.
And 60 billion tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste more about two years worth, would have been dumped into the atmosphere.
Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power
Anti-nuke ignorance is directly responsible for a large portion of the more than 6 million people who die each year from air pollution according to the internationally authored study of disease risk factors published in Lancet: A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990—2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
Nowhere in that comprehensive study does "nuclear power" or in fact anything associated with nuclear technology appear as a significant risk to human health, this after more than half a century of operations in an atmosphere of catcalls from ignoramuses. Sixty million people though, died in each of the last two decades from air pollution, a twenty year total that is equivalent to more than two second world wars. Many of those lives might have been saved were it not for the broadly disseminated ignorance of radiation phobic paranoids who can't think, and thus have caused humanity to suffer broadly and unnecessarily, simply because they have adamantly refused to be bothered to open a science book.
One wishes that anti-nukes placed the exigent needs of humanity and the planetary environment above their stupid little obsessions with every radioactive atom that floats around harmlessly, but that is not to be.
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