Good morning
The problem is when someone is anti-nuclear (anti-nuke) there's a bigger scorecard than those who support it.
From August 6th 1945 to April 21 2013 no form of energy has even remotely come close to killing more people than Nuclear Energy.
The amount of cancer created from nuclear radiation is impossible to determine because its generational and that means genetic damage to your children's children....and beyond......because Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years
THE SCORECARD OF NUCLEAR ENERGY INCLUDES ALL STATISTICS RELATED TO THE SCIENCE OF SPLITTING AN ATOM
THE WASTE BY-PRODUCT OF THAT EVENT IS THE PROBLEM
The amount of free energy contained in nuclear fuel is millions of times the amount of free energy contained in a similar mass of chemical fuel such as gasoline, making nuclear fission a very dense source of energy. The products of nuclear fission, however, are on average far more radioactive than the heavy elements which are normally fissioned as fuel, and remain so for significant amounts of time, giving rise to a nuclear waste problem. Concerns over nuclear waste accumulation and over the destructive potential of nuclear weapons may counterbalance the desirable qualities of fission as an energy source, and give rise to ongoing political debate over nuclear power.
THE DUMPING OF NUCLEAR WASTE INTO THE OCEAN, WHICH WAS PREFORMED ON A REGULAR BASIS BY THE SOVIET UNION, JAPAN AND GREAT BRITAIN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN UP, AND THE TIDES ROLL IN AND INSECTS, BIRDS, FISH AND MAMMALS DIGEST IT AND THEN WE DIGEST THEM AND WHAT MIGHT DEFORM YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN DOESN'T SHOW UP FOR 50 YEARS AND BY THAT TIME EVERYBODY WHO WAS YELLING (in either direction).....IS ALREADY DEAD.....AND IT'S THEIR PROBLEM NOT OURS.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY, IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA, IS NOT TO US,.....IT IS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.
My problem is I've read Dr. Alice Stewart and Dr. Helen Caldicott....and when one considers how much disinformation has been utilized by supporters of Nuclear Energy from the very beginning then it's not a level playing field.
Did you know that in late 1945 US Army surgeons issued a statement that all people in Japan that expected to die from radiation effects had ALREADY DIED....AND THAT NO FURTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS DUE TO RADIATION WERE EXPECTED IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS.
THESE TYPE OF STORIES GO ON AND ON AND ON......BECAUSE THE MAKING OF WEAPONS WAS THE PRIMARY REASON FOR BUILDING REACTORS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION WAS DEFINITELY NOT PART OF THE PLAN.
ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THE ONLY REASON WE HAVE NUCLEAR REACTORS IS BECAUSE WE NEEDED SOMEPLACE TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
WHEN ONE STOPS TO CONSIDER THAT 100 ABOVE GROUND NUCLEAR TESTS WERE CONDUCTED BETWEEN 1951 AND 1963
IN NEVADA........WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES OF LAS VEGAS......ONE HAS TO ACCEPT THAT MAKING WEAPONS WAS THE PRIMARY GOAL AND THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION WAS NOT EVEN CONSIDERED. THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY ONLY DETONATED THE BOMBS WHEN WINDS WERE EASTERLY. FUCK PEOPLE THAT LIVED EAST OF NEVADA....BUT THEN ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS.......
THE WIND SHIFTED AND THAT'S WHY I GOT A THYROID TUMOR AND YOU LOST YOUR HAIR....AND THE DODGERS CAN'T FREAKIN HIT WITH MEN ON BASE.
IT'S ALL CONNECTED DUDE. I DON'T MAKE UP THE RULES
but back to the waste issue......
From various reports
A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production
Cost and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear weapons since 1950
Nuclear Wastelands
etc.
THE ESTIMATED CLEANUP COST OF WEAPONS PRODUCTION IS BETWEEN $216 BILLION AND $410 BILLION.
ADD THAT TO THE $5.5 TRILLION SPENT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS BETWEEN 1940 AND 1996.
WITH 435 NUCLEAR REACTORS ON THE PLANET COMES MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE SPENT FUEL SITTING IN STORAGE TANKS.
THE COST OF THE CLEAN-UP, IF YOU ASSUME SOMEONE COULD ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO CLEAN IT UP, WOULD COST MORE THAN THE INSTALLATIONS THEMSELVES.
PLEASE DON'T GIVE ME THE ARGUMENT ABOUT AMERICAN LIVES BEING SAVED BECAUSE OF THE BOMBING IN 1945.
IT'S OLD AND IT'S TIRED AND EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET KNOWS JAPAN WAS FINISHED BEFORE THOSE BOMBS DROPPED.
WE DROPPED THEM TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE HAD SOMETHING BIGGER AND BADDER THAN ANYONE ELSE.
THAT WAS THE GOAL....NOT TO END THE WAR.
AND IT WORKED REALLY WELL AND AMERICA BECAME THE ULTIMATE SUPER POWER.....BUT SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED AND THE GATES OF HELL WERE OPENED TO ANYONE SMART ENOUGH TO FUCK WITH THE ATOM.
WELL THEN....
THE FOLLOWING SMART GUYS GOT INVOLVED
GREAT BRITAIN
FRANCE
RUSSIA
CHINA
INDIA
PAKISTAN
ISRAEL
NORTH KOREA
IRAN
On that list is a few names that don't consider the United States to be their friend. We could teach them a lesson about Nuclear Energy and how well it works when used in the ultimate manner....after all the years of building Nuclear weapons we have accumulated thousands of those game changers. No one knows exactly how many Nukes we have but it's pretty safe to say we've got enough to fuck up everybody and ourselves.
What will happen some day when the Sun finally uses it's last rod and becomes a dwarf star has little or no concern to somebody living in 2013 unless of course you have an interest in the big picture....what's a few billion years when you believe in God?
It's a Universe awareness type interest and no one can make anyone see the big picture if what only matters is what is happening this morning at breakfast....which by the way I haven't had yet so I might have to cut this bullshit short.
I just really believe that if statistics matter than all stats must be included when discussing Nuclear Energy....and all cost have to be included. There's no number avaialble on clean up.
Hanford, Savannah River, Rocky Flats and Fernald have all been shut down and 11 of the original 17 weapons plants are declared SUPERFUND sites. CLEANING UP THESE SITES WILL RUN INTO THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
From 1940 to 2013 NUCLEAR ENERGY is not the answer for a healthy human experience with itself or with the planet Earth.
By the way....radiation treatment for curing illness is way behind when you add up the numbers.
The real problem is that the cork has been popped and what's spilling on the table is not something you want to lick up.
The weapons were always the number one priority and probably still are
....and that's a sad fact.
Go Dodgers,,....please....before we melt.
Tim