Posted on 04/02/2013 5:43:51 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, American accidents anyway.
Petr Beckman detailed the precise ways in which nuclear power would save far more lives in producing electric power than any other method in this book.
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Did he detail the medical studies dating from the 60’s to the present detailing the damage done to human health by low level radiation? How about Chernobyl? Oh but Chernobyl started in the 80s so that was before Beckman. As was Fukushima and other little mishaps the nuclear power industry simply pretends didn’t happen and didn’t harm anyone. The problem with Beckman is he had to have believed the ad copy written by nuclear power shills stating as a fact that containment could NOT fail - that it was by design impossible. By now of course it’s obviously false (there are 3 nuclear cores in Japan that have melted through the containment structures and are ‘somewhere’ in the basement of the power plants) but so much of what Beckman believed was just propaganda.
IIRC, there was a city in the Northwest that was powered by the plant on a Nuke submarine, during a blackout. Smaller nuke plants are a great solution, but that will happen only after folks get over their hysteria about nuke plants.
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