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Originally Posted by CCIP
Yeah, I agree that despite how serious things may be with the reactors, this panic-mongering some people are getting into over nuclear power is stupid and short-sighted. Unless something goes really, really wrong from this point on, I honestly see the situation with the reactors as proving the safety and reliability of their design under extreme circumstances, not vice versa...
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Welcome in our dimension, alien. Where do you come from, and what makes existence such a perfect state over there?
Cooling systems in at least four different sites along the coast, are currently reported to be critical or already having collapsed. And you call that "fear mongering...?
When Tchernobyl went up, Germany received varying doses of radioactivity, depending on the region. Worst it was in Bavaria, I seem to recall, and youstill can measure it - and it will stay that way for decades to come. In the first years, nothing seemed to have effected by it. But today, a quarter of a century later, we know that we have a statistically abnormal accumulation of deformaties in population groups having been exposed to this "low-level" radiation, and a statistically signficant raise in child mortality. Mind you - I'm talking about Germany, not Chernobyl and Russia.
We received just a small fraction of those doses Xabba's map is pointing out.
Some people will stay uncritical of nuclear technology as long as they do not grow a third arm.
On the other ahnd, see it positive. If so far 4 (!) instabile powerplants with critical or already molten cores and cooling systems critical or already having failed, will not make nervous, than nothing ever will.