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As Fukushima gets moved from 5 to 7 remember that 0 (deaths) is still an applicable number

ByRod Adams

…he renewable energy business has also worked hard to portray the events at Fukushima as a reason to invest in their unreliable and expensive sources of electricity. This screen shot is not atypical of the kind of material that you can find with Google searches that link Fukushima and renewable energy. The more I read about all of the businesses that hope to benefit from the aftermath, the more convinced I become that at least some of the hype is c…

Platts Energy Week Discusses Jaczko’s odd announcement about reactor safety

ByRod Adams

…after a chain reaction is shut down. That “decay heat” is what led to the Fukushima meltdowns. The solution, he said, was probably smaller reactors in which the heat could not push the temperature to the fuel’s melting point. The side session where Jaczko made his remarks was titled Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Shortcomings of Safety Regulation and Lessons Learned and was organized by Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation. Jaczko’s stink bomb and th…

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Why is the New York Academy of Sciences allowing its name to be used in an anti-science FUD campaign?

ByRod Adams

…osed people, 134 of whom became immediately ill), plus 19 possibly related deaths, plus fewer than 20 deaths from thyroid cancer and an isolated book that claims nearly one million deaths is so incredible that it has contributed to the conversion of at least one form anti nuclear journalist into an active questioner of his former colleagues. When George Monbiot was confronted by Helen Caldicott a few weeks ago on Democracy Now with her updated cla…

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Disastrous consequences of LNT model at Fukushima Daiichi

ByRod Adams

…ion related casualties.” http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/12/17/Fukushima-evacuation-deaths-surpass-areas-quake-tsunami-toll/UPI-79861387315134/ Engineer-Poet No kidding.  He gets beat up here because he deserves it so richly. ActindeAge Also to the casual commenter here, it appears that Mr Applebaum is rather immune to reason and would rather shout over others than respond to evidence https://atomicinsights.com/positive-effects-low-dos…

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The Left Needs to Reconsider its Automatic Position Against Nuclear Energy

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…ut never in the tens or hundreds of thousands, let alone a million. And at Fukushima, the estimate of deaths, apart from fictitious assumptions, is zero – both immediate and delayed. To take a paragraph from Hunziker as another example: “The exclusion zone around Chernobyl is known as ‘Death Valley.’ It has been increased from 30 to 70 square kilometres. No humans will ever be able to live in the zone again. It is a permanent ‘dead zone.’” It real…

Critical Analysis of Mousseau Fukushima Presentation
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Critical Analysis of Mousseau Fukushima Presentation

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…tive claims of Caldicott, Yablokov, Mangano, and Sherman, has also claimed Fukushima will result in a million deaths. So far no one has died, and we are still waiting. Thus the whole symposium seemingly consisted of presenters of questionable material. Maybe it’s no wonder Mousseau’s Japanese colleagues dropped out. Being involved with this crowd could have the possibility of damaging their scientific reputation. References and Footnotes From Beyo…

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Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Exceptional Summary by Murray E. Miles

ByRod Adams

…and one just over 15 rem at 13 days into the emergency. There have been no deaths from radiation and none seem likely. To help emphasize this is NOT like Chernobyl, 600,000 workers, called liquidators, cycled through Chernobyl. Some worked only seconds. Their average radiation exposure was 10 rem. 59 workers died from radiation, including helicopter pilots. The deaths took months. Very high doses are required to cause quick death from radiation. B…

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Leukemia and lymphoma study recently published in Lancet being strong challenged by SARI

ByRod Adams

…did not read the whole study but the parts that related to DU. The 654,965 deaths was the number of overall early than expected deaths from a wide range of causes some more direct than others. DU is claimed to have poisoned the water supply in Basra. Note that the US military did not use uranium because it would poison people but because it would penetrate armor. Of course penetrating armor has the intention of killing people. The question is if t…

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Physics Today Reader’s Forum: Low-dose radiation exposure should not be feared

ByRod Adams

…I agree with Jim Hopf’s point, I think it is important that the evacuation deaths are *real deaths* you could put *real names* to if you wanted to. That’s emotionally different than the (admittedly far greater) number of “anonymous” deaths that form some theoretical fraction of the millions who perish from respiratory problems every year. “Hideo Yukawa died because he was needlessly moved from his hospital room into a bus,” carries an impact lacki…

Jaczko comes out as avowed antinuclear activist

ByRod Adams

…during his tenure as NRC’s chairman, as acknowledged by the NRC’s special Fukushima response task force and evidenced by a multitude of safety and performance indicators. It is still the case today, particularly as every US nuclear energy facility adds yet another layer of safety by implementing lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident.” I’m not as polite or constrained, especially in the case in which someone like Jaczko is abusing hi…

Was Arnie Gundersen a Licensed Reactor Operator and Senior VP Nuclear Licensee?

ByRod Adams

…eves no one has been hurt. That’s not true. I believe there will be cancer deaths from Fukushima, but we must wait to find out. I do not believe the UNSCEAR and IAEA claims of no harm, because both of them are nuclear true believer organizations, so they dismiss or discount evidence to the contrary. I use my doctorate investigating safety culture issues and other examples of human nature which I think auger against nuclear safety. So I mention hav…

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Atomic Show #231 – Grandparents for nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…ation, and it has many short comings. SOARCA is only applicable in the US. Fukushima did not turn out like SOARCA predicts – Fukushima disaster did not take long for fuel melting, hydrogen explosions, containment failures, and release of large quantities of radiation. The NRC regulates NPPs for public and worker safety – not just for radiation. All you need to do is read the laws that govern NRC. jaagu @Will Boisvert Thanks for bringing this to my…

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