madokie states:
, its because of the fact that they don't know what to do when shit happens when it goes wrong.
As FBaggins points out; all the pronouncements from the anti-nukes that Fukushima was an ELE - Extinction Level Event - and that somehow we were all going to die because of this has not panned out. I can just sense the manifest disappointment from the anti-nukes.
We seem to be "gifted" with what I call the "binary thinkers" - there's only a single bit, a single on/off decision in their logic; perhaps explained by a single functioning neuron.
Something is either "100% safe" or "100% dangerous". Or at least that is how they "think" about nuclear energy.
However, these same people drive cars, fly in airliners; and do thousands of activities that are not 100% safe.
I find it confounding that people are so unthinkingly adamant that nuclear power is so dangerous; when the event that they point to hasn't killed a single person. The issue here is what to do about some water that is contaminated with radioactivity and about that leaking into the ocean. However, the amount of radioactivity that is already in the ocean courtesy of Mother Nature manifestly exceeds the radioactivity from Fukushima by many orders of magnitude.
Contrast this with the response to an airliner crash or a car crash. Unlike Fukushima, those events really kill people; but it is Fukushima that they adamantly claim is "dangerous".
Consider the last 50 years; the year for which we have had nuclear power in the USA. In the USA, with plants that meet US nuclear regulations unlike Chernobyl and Fukushima; the single severe accident that the US nuclear power industry has had, namely Three Mile Island killed or injured NOBODY.
In that same time period, tens of thousands of people have died on airliners, and about 2 million ( 40,000+ per year for 50 years ) have died in auto accidents. However, are any of these people adamantly claiming that airliners are dangerous and need to be banned? Are they saying that cars are dangerous and need to be banned?
NO - but they will figuratively "stamp their feet", and proclaim without any logical justification or evidence that nuclear is dangerous; and that is the final word.
It is the final word for people who don't have the logic or evidence with which to carry on a debate. They can only parrot the anti-nuke gurus that do their thinking for them.
Once again; I COMPLETELY understand.
PamW
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