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Written by Patrick Townsend on 2024-10-04 at 17:04

Nuclear power

This is personal for me. I remember the Three Mile Island meltdown. I was not in that location, but I remember how close it came to a major disaster that would have impacted a wide area. Before that meltdown I remember listening to nuclear energy "experts" exclaiming how safe and clean nuclear energy is.

Then Chernobyl happened. We were living in southern Germany downwind of that disaster. Our daughter was 11 months old and vulnerable. Unless you've lived this you cannot imagine what it is like to fear invisible radioactive fallout and the danger to your family. You keep your family inside, off the grass, out of the parks, away from pets, and you can't get information about the danger. We were lucky and were able to return to the US shortly after. But you never forget the experience.

And then Fukushima.

You get the idea. I don't want to hear any BS about how safe nuclear power is.

Or any BS about how clean it is. Uranium mining is not environmentally safe or clean and there is no clean way to dispose of nuclear waste.

I know there is a climate catastrophe in progress right now. I just don't believe we should be activating nuclear power stations to power AI or anything else.

[#]AI #Nuclear #Radioactive #Climate #Microsoft

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Written by Svante on 2024-10-04 at 22:35

@patrick_townsend I am very sorry to read your trauma. Public communication has failed you.

I understand your fear.

You are left in a mental state that rejects objective facts that are crucial for your survival, as shown in the last paragraph.

Please try to realize that your fears were mostly engineered by bad actors. Chornobyl was bad, but you were never in danger in Germany. Nobody died from TMI, nobody died from the nuclear accident at Fukushima.

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Written by Alex S. on 2024-10-05 at 12:51

@Ardubal @patrick_townsend

@Steveg58

@humanhorseshoes

Worst of all: Public communication is always bad at this type of event.

The Sowjets in Chernobyl did no communication at all, the Western world only found out two days later through an automated alarm at a swedish nuclear plant.

At Three Mile Island the council members went "door to door through the town providing information" half a day later. The governor issued a evacuation after two days. 140.000 people fled.

https://onlineethics.org/cases/three-mile-island-nuclear-accident

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Written by Alex S. on 2024-10-05 at 12:51

@Ardubal @patrick_townsend @Steveg58 @humanhorseshoes

In the region of Germany where I live, you still have to test hunted wild boar for radiation contamination due to Chernobyl 40 yr ago.

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Written by Patrick Townsend on 2024-10-06 at 00:47

@alex_mastodon @Ardubal @Steveg58 @humanhorseshoes

Oh my, this brings back memories. I was living near Wasserburg Am Inn in a rural area (lots of cows, ha ha). Milk was quickly quarantined due to contamination of the fields. I am sorry you still have to deal with this.

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