US Nuclear Regulator Opposes European Moves to Tighten Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima

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1. How many lives would be saved by tightening the regulations on the industry that is already...

...the most effective at saving lives?

Exactly how many people in the United States, in the last half a century of nuclear operations here, have died because of ineffective nuclear regulations?

How many died from gas explosions? Air pollution?

The fact is that many nuclear regulations are tightened at the behest of people who know nothing about nuclear power but hate it anyway. Their goal is simply to raise costs on nuclear power plants so they can act like arsonists claiming to oppose forest fires.

And let's be clear. This is not a morally neutral thing to do, since nuclear power plants save lives that would otherwise be lost to dangerous fossil fuel waste (air pollution and land pollution), dangerous fossil fuel accidents (fires, explosions and massive leaks) and a wide array of similar every day occurrences about which anti-nukes couldn't care less.

300 Fukushimas wouldn't kill as many people as died this year from natural gas explosions, or for that matter the air pollution caused by car cultists.

Which killed more people, radiation from Fukushima or the air pollution caused to run computers to have people complain about Fukushima?

Which has caused radiation to leak, Fukushima, or the fracking water spewed all over Pennsylvania to back up expensive, toxic and essentially useless so called "renewable energy" facilities.

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