Even the disaster of Fukushima amounted to a group of people eating one or two more bananas than they normally would.
To put things in perspective in nuclear energy, the worst disaster imaginable happened at Chernobyl. Aside from a few people who were exposed to the core and handled radioactive material that was very hot (both in terms of radiation and temperature), no one was hurt. There was no increase in cancer. There was no decrease in lifespan.
We knew that low levels of radiation were harmless. Indeed, some studies suggested low levels of radiation were actually beneficial to you. We knew that very high levels of radiation would kill you, and we had a stack of dead bodies to demonstrate that. What we didn't know was what medium levels of radiation would do, and there was no way to ethically test it. Chernobyl was that test, and nuclear energy is, by far, the safest energy source in the universe, BAR NONE, even when it is completely mismanaged and an unimaginable disaster happens.
I mean, Chernobyl had ZERO SHIELDING of the core. When it blew, chunks of the core landed far away. You could see the Cerenkov Radiation -- the blue glow of particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a material. It was absolutely the worst possible disaster you could create short of a nuclear bomb.
Fukushima is a nothing burger, and the only reason people are scared of it is because they were told to be scared of it. It is harmless and will end up doing exactly ZERO harm to anyone.
Even the disaster of Fukushima amounted to a group of people eating one or two more bananas than they normally would.
To put things in perspective in nuclear energy, the worst disaster imaginable happened at Chernobyl. Aside from a few people who were exposed to the core and handled radioactive material that was very hot (both in terms of radiation and temperature), no one was hurt. There was no increase in cancer. There was no decrease in lifespan.
We knew that low levels of radiation were harmless. Indeed, some studies suggested low levels of radiation were actually beneficial to you. We knew that very high levels of radiation would kill you, and we had a stack of dead bodies to demonstrate that. What we didn't know was what medium levels of radiation would do, and there was no way to ethically test it. Chernobyl was that test, and nuclear energy is, by far, the safest energy source in the universe, BAR NONE, even when it is completely mismanaged and an unimaginable disaster happens.
I mean, Chernobyl had ZERO SHIELDING of the core. When it blew, chunks of the core landed far away. You could see the Cerenkov Radiation -- the blue glow of particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a material. It was absolutely the worst possible disaster you could create short of a nuclear bomb.
Fukushima is a nothing burger, and the only reason people are scared of it is because they were told to be scared of it. It is harmless and will end up doing exactly ZERO harm to anyone.