Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Fukushima Demonstrates That Nuclear Power Works

George "Moonbat" Monbiot (h/t Insty):

[T]he average total dose from the Three Mile Island disaster for someone living within 10 miles of the plant was one 625th of the maximum yearly amount permitted for US radiation workers. This, in turn, is half of the lowest one-year dose clearly linked to an increased cancer risk, which, in its turn, is one 80th of an invariably fatal exposure. I'm not proposing complacency here. I am proposing perspective.
If other forms of energy production caused no damage, these impacts would weigh more heavily. But energy is like medicine: if there are no side-effects, the chances are that it doesn't work.
Read the whole thing, in which he points out that renewable energy carries it's own costs. Basically, Fukushima got hit with a perfect storm of disasters, and to date, no one is going to die.

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