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In reply to the discussion: Gundersen: 26 nuclear plants in area where Hurricane Sandy likely to hit — [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)17. The denial in the rest of the thread is like deja vu, too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11277017
Even as nuclear fuel meltdown was in full swing at Fukushima, Adelaide University's Professor Barry Brook reassured us that:
"There is no credible risk of a serious accident... Those spreading FUD at the moment will be the ones left with egg on their faces. I am happy to be quoted forever after on the above if I am wrong ... but I won't be."
Even as nuclear fuel meltdown was in full swing at Fukushima, Adelaide University's Professor Barry Brook reassured us that:
"There is no credible risk of a serious accident... Those spreading FUD at the moment will be the ones left with egg on their faces. I am happy to be quoted forever after on the above if I am wrong ... but I won't be."
More from Barry Brook on Fukushima:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x284853
"There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity."
"There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity."
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Gundersen: 26 nuclear plants in area where Hurricane Sandy likely to hit — [View all]
Kolesar
Oct 2012
OP
Gunderson is so full of shit it would be funny, if he wasn't terrifying people
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2012
#13
And when those measures occurred, the generating sources are taken offline.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2012
#30
And unlike many here presume, we have not been sitting on our hands since Fukushima
Throckmorton
Nov 2012
#34
I wonder how he feels about the possibility that teh nucular will turn the Earth into Venus?
GliderGuider
Nov 2012
#42