Posted on 12/25/2011 6:35:16 PM PST by LucyT
And 84% of statistics are made up on the spot (including this one)
There's a pretty high chance that something else would kill them first.
You got that right.
Post of the day in my opinion. ;)
As a nuke (rad tech at commercial nuclear power plant), I have always been aware that you get more from smoking a pack a day, or from living in Denver, than I do from my job.
As a dad, I think that all high school students should have a FULL SEMESTER on interpreting statistics and comparitive risks.
I find this completely incredible.
I think the likeliest explanation is that some Greenies want to kill the nuclear energy industry. And its becoming more and more evident that the leading Greenies are not just flakes, but have an agenda, which involves destroying our economy.
The new media made a concerted effort to pump up the news from Fukushima. Not because anybody seemed to give a damn about the Japanese, but because they wanted to kill nuclear power. And not just in this country. Angela Merkel caved in Germany, and said she would shut down their nuclear plants, although I think that has since been reconsidered.
Fukushima had a serious effect in the immediate area, but it has been consistently overblown.
Ambulance chaser alert!
I can’t seem to find a home page for the journal in question, but this seems to be the parent organization:
It looks like a left-wing activist organization of some kind, with labor union connections. More about politics than about science, from the looks of it.
They should calculate the deaths through the years from Oprah Winfrey’s farts.
By then they will be on to another man made disaster. It all comes down to politics and that the watermelon left is very good at.
Like txnuke, I’m a former nuke (EQ Group - Nuke Eng.).
I like oysters and every week I eat a pint of Willapa Bay oysters. Willapa Bay, Washington, is one of cleanest salt water bays in the U.S. and the oysters are yummy.
So far I’m not dead and haven’t experienced anything that could be related to fallout exposure. I would expect there to be problems with shellfish due to their being filter feeders in sea water. So far, so good.
Horse sh**. There is no way they can tell how many people, if any(and I think NONE),in the USA died from the meltdown. Just more anti-nuke BS from the greenies.
More people will die from airport security x-rays every week then this.
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Note to self:
Never, ever, post an article on holidays or weekends.
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I believe some of the nuclear plant workers either died or at least gotten very sick, but I haven't found any names or exact count.
14,000 deaths since earlier this year? Total B.S.
Even if you accept that there was major radiation poisoning in the US, the deaths will take years to materialize.
As strange as this ma sound, it’s documented elsewhere that worldwide mortality rates, for all causes, increased 10 percent in the 100 days following the beginning of the Chernobyl “fire” in January 1986.
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