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Change at EPA could reduce the high cost of nuclear energy & improve grid cleanliness

ByRod Adams

…same kind of linear, no threshold dose model as the predictions of cancer deaths from low levels of radiation. ” Similar methods are used for estimating coal deaths as well, but are you sure they didn’t put these NOX changes into the “complete models of life, the universe, and everything” used for climate change, and see what came out? It is also possible that the approximate models are accurate enough over the applicable ranges, and it’s not non…

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False media balance – radiation health risks contrasted against climate change

ByRod Adams

…accident? Do you agree that the science shows that the probability of zero deaths from exposure to the radioactive materials that leaked from Fukushima approaches 100%, though there is some uncertainty due to the fact that a handful of workers have received doses that are high enough to give them a measurable increase in cancer risk? That increased risk is a few percent higher than it would have been without the exposure. This question is closely…

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Spirited debate about BEIR VII and Linear No Threshold (LNT) Dose Assumption

ByRod Adams

…the Taiwanese society of the roughly 7172 exposed to be 169 natural cancer deaths, with the IRCP model predicting 219 based on the LNT model. The second report identified 141 total cancer deaths, and supported their conclusions with a LNT model and threw out Chen’s report based on not accurately counting the eligible candidates. If the societal average cancer rate is higher than an exposed population by 16% that is not insignificant. Yet the secon…

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George Monbiot debates Helen Caldicott, who says he is lying

ByRod Adams

…etches really far in order to calculate a scary sounding number of 985,000 deaths from Chernobyl related cancers. Apparently, even that number is not scary sounding enough for Dr. Caldicott, so she has, without any basis at all, more than doubled it to her most recent claim of more that 2 million deaths. Her loudly proclaimed source, published just last summer, has a number that is less than half of that. Based on the demonstrated trend, I fully e…

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Jerry Cuttler and Mohan Doss add their voices to Calabrese’s challenge to Science Magazine. Rejected – so far.

ByRod Adams

…dose radiation. Some examples of public harm are as follows: Casualties in Fukushima: Urgent evacuation of the Fukushima area and its prolongation following the 2011 nuclear power plant accidents caused more than 1000 deaths with no recognizable benefit. More than 100,000 people remain displaced, either by government mandate or by fear of low-level radiation exposure. Suppression of nuclear energy: The use of nuclear energy to produce electricity,…

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The LNT Hypothesis: Ethical Travesties

ByRod Adams

…Mach 5. Joffan Friendly fact check: The LNT model predicts 4000-9000 early deaths from Chernobyl due to radiological-induced cancer, as assessed by the UN report in 2006 (but using the rider “up to” the number given). Several organisations including UNSCEAR have changed that to “no detectable effect”, which better reflects reality. The only way to get to a million deaths is anti-nuclear hysteria of an order that even Greenpeace needed to work them…

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Above board competition in energy markets finally emerging. API Ohio pushing for nuclear shutdowns

ByRod Adams

…d biofuel/biomass are significantly worse, in terms of hypothetical future deaths, than US coal.(36,000 24,000 and 10,000 hypothetical future deaths per Trillion kWh for oil, biofuel and US coal). The comparisons are difficult to make “fairly,” but your simple claim is clearly wrong. ( www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/ ) Bonds 25 “The Sierra Club takes no position on nuclear power plants” Hahaha…….

IPCC working group III recommends nearly quadrupling nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…tually 100% correct. Given the very low doses of radiation absorbed by the Fukushima inhabitants as a result of the Fukushima meltdowns, they are *in fact* more likely to contract cancer due to the stress of extraordinary fear than they are likely to contract it from the fall-out. So the statement by Mr Yamashita (an authority on radiation health effects) about how ‘smiling people’ will not get negative effects from the radiation, while people who…

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Natural gas may be cheap, but how safe is it? (Remembering San Bruno)

ByRod Adams

…ers. This same type of poisoning can occur if the vents on natural gas appliances and heaters get blocked/clogged. All technology can cause deaths; however, lack of technology/energy causes many more premature deaths. If want to see the differences in premature deaths from different activities and energy sources given in man hours/days/months /years, you should read the works of Bernard Cohen (Cohan?)….

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Sad-ending story of EBR-II told by three of its pioneers

ByRod Adams

…rom the nuclear plant. – nuclear accidents (can) create(d) huge amounts of deaths as with Chernobyl. Fukushima would show similar, if the lucky Japanese hadn’t have the ocean going wind during ~97% of the time. – nuclear accidents create huge permanent excluzion zones. If our only NPP would have a real accident, with major winds from SSW, then Netherlands will be totally crippled as its economic heart (Rotterdam) will become a desolated area. Why…

Mark Jacobson condenses 26 years of wind, water, solar research to 6.5 minute barrage

ByRod Adams

…nd climate costs. Because we eliminate four to seven million air pollution deaths worldwide, we eliminate global warming as we know it; we stabilize prices because the fuel costs of wind, water and solar are zero; and we reduce international conflict because all energy is local, most, almost all energy is local. We don’t have to have international transfers of energy like we do now. We have more separated plants, distributed energy sources, so tha…

Why does ERCOT credit wind capacity at less than 9%?

ByRod Adams

…achchu-2 Dam India-5000 dead; and I could go on but you can view the link. Deaths at Fukushima, 2nd worst nuclear disaster in history–zilch. Deaths at Chernobyl, worst nuclear disaster in history–about 60. Anti-nukes are placing their fears in all the wrong places. In addition, nuclear power saves lives by not burning coal. Per MWh of electricity produced, nuclear power has the least impact on the environment. Engineer-Poet And, if you’re going…

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