Just been paying attention to this myself
Look the fact is, there are going to be a lot more birth defects and cancer
Anyone arguing the safety of nuclear power plants is crazy.
No matter how small the number of leaks or accidents are, each accident damages the entire environment and ecosystem of an area for thousands of years if not the globe.
Even if we were to make everything 100% maximum safety, to err is human.
Even if we were to make everything safe, earthquakes happen all over the world, not just in fault areas (remember we had a quake in NYC recently), and for anyone to argue the safety of a plant or waste area by how far away they are from the volcano or fault line is arguing with a false correlation. We can't predict quakes yet, and they are certainly not stoppable either.
So its not a matter of if, its a matter of when, and we as the human race need to measure the risk vs. the reward.
I don't care how much nuclear power saves us from global warming, because NOTHING NOTHING is more damaging to life than radiation. Temperature changes are NOTHING compared to poison that has no cure.
And I'm not talking about the stuff you measure with a geiger counter.
I'm talking about the radiation that builds up in the body, even 1 part per TRILLION of radioactive cesium can kill a human. Geiger counter won't measure that. And radiation DOESN'T EVER leave the body, or the soil or the water. And 1 part per trillion is enough to give you leukemia in 5 years. I'm not making this up.
It gets in the soil, than the animals eat it, and then other animals eat those animals etc... the higher up the food chain, the more concentrated the poision.
Anyone who is smart in Japan, is not going to be buying any meat or fish from 1000 miles of the disaster for the next 500 years.
I'm not talking out my a** here.
That is why we can't eat certain types of fish, because the mercury which is in the plankton is concentrated in the fish that eat the fish that eat the plankton. Same goes for radioactive elements, except the effects are MUCH WORSE.
This is a no win situation.
I know people like to argue rather than admit they are wrong, but we are talking about something that poisons all of life for thousands of years with NO REMEDY.
At least climate change theorists have ideas of how to solve it. Radiation has no cure. No little mirco-nanomachines to clean the air etc. . .
We are talking about something that poisons women's bodies so their children have a higher chance of being born without arms, legs, eyes or a brain. Hiroshima and Nagasaki STILL have higher cases of these birth defects. Effectively their local population has been sterilized by radiation. There are those that died in the blast, those that died of radiation poisoning, those that died and are still dying of cancer from the radiation poisoning and those that died or were never alive, from the birth defects. . . equaling to at least a million lives at this point. At least.
We are talking about meltdowns and spills that are inevitable as human error with radiation that leaks out one thousand times an atomic bomb. Do you want to worry weather you should risk having a child? Especially if they ever make abortion hard to get. .. .
Women in Falluja Iraq are basically being told by their local city council not to give birth, because of all the uranium radiation from the spent artillery shells has poisoned them.
I have a friend who is from Lebanon that told me no one can eat dates, olives, raisins and many other concentrated foods from Turkey due to the radiation that covered during the Chernobyl disaster over a half century ago. The prevailing winds sent the majority of radiation there. Turkey is still very very angry about this and it still affects their politics with Europe, since europe isn't buying their food either. This radiation has affected their food for the next thousand years. Dates were a very successful product for them, and now they aren't safe to eat.
So yeah, lets be real here people.
So, yeah, I'm not talking **** or doomsday, these are facts. There is nothing to fear, only to be understood.