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Originally Posted by srswans
This is all false, anti-nuclear propaganda pushed by environmentalists.
Read “Apocalypse Never” by Michael Shellenberger for better info. Zion Lights on Twitter, another former environmentalists turned pro-nulcear, is also a good resource.
Germany is in the process of shutting down its 17 nuclear plants; the IPCC is predicting 1100 more deaths per year from Germany returning to fossil fuels.
Maybe these predicted blackouts will be sufficiently painful to get our politicians and government moving to build more Fourth Gen nuclear plants.
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To an extent, antinuclear people, as well as "environmentalists" (a term I believe is constantly misapplied as if a person who cares about the preservation of the "environment" is only a member of a particular political party, or has a certain personality or psychological profile) are just inflexible people, like in so many other areas, certainly entitled to their own opinions and concerns, but just completely closed to even analyzing any data to the contrary of the opinion they hold. Our politicians are only empty vessels we PAY to go to government and represent OUR collective wishes because we are too busy, or lack interest in representing our collective decisions. When the majority decide they WANT MORE nuclear power, I have no doubt every politician will jump on the band wagon that carries votes. Higher and higher prices and unpredictable reliability, may motivate many "objectors" to actually examine all the pros and cons associated with the medical, financial, environmental and other implications of various power sources. Personally I believe much more could be done with solar power, especially in our southern states. ALL sources have negatives as well as positives.