Reply #11: Forsmark isn't the greatest environmental disaster of all time? [View All]

[NNadir]

From the reaction at DU, I was certain that it at least killed as many people as say this disaster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

As an arbiter of good energy sense and a deep committment to safety, I am quite sure that you, Bananas, have been a world leader in trying to prevent the scourge of new Chinese hydroelectric dams. Afterall, as you never tire of telling us, this disaster killed, according to Wikipedia, almost 175,000 people, 26,000 in a single night, and the rest from the resulting disease and famine. Moreover, you frequently post pictures from the 5,960,000 buildings that collapsed, and frequently tell us of the suffering of the 11,000,000 people affected.

I am convinced that this more recent case,

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2005_July_25/ai_n14940574

resulted in much further discussion on your part on how hydroelectric facilities continue to be too dangerous to contemplate, even in a time of global climate change.

I am also quite certain that you will revise my obviously low number of dead from the the Forsmark scram, and prove that I am minimizing the tragedy of the Formark disaster by asserting that only 313,978,781 people died when the reactor scrammed. Surely you will point out that everyone on earth will die after Forsmark, and note once again, that, after Chernobyl, everyone on earth will die.

Why, I'm quite sure that the Formark disaster has fully depopulated Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway as well as vast stretches of Northern Russia! Is it not the case? I always rely on you to produce clear and unbiased discussion of energy risk.

As soon as I can get there - there are some flight delays owing to the fact that we need to be sure that no one ever faces any kind of risk under any conditions (thereby assuring our immortality) - I intend to wade into the vastly radioactive wasteland (formerly known as Scandanavia) to expiate for my sins of claiming that nuclear energy is the only form of risk to which dumb people pay attention.

Now I understand why it was necessary for me to repeatedly bump (13 times) this thread because it so excited the imaginations of all of our anti-nuclear DU energy experts:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=43122

Certainly these 65 dead, in a Mexican coal mine, (and I never did find out if they bothered to dig out the bodies) pale in comparison to the 313,978,781 + killed at Forsmark, no?

And, can you imagine, in spite of this vast tragedy, the two surviving Swedes, clad in radiation protection suits, intend to restart Forsmark 1 in a couple of weeks after - get this - analyzing the problem that killed all of those people?