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Anyway,
[url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-26-01.html]Chernobyl caused a million deaths[/url] so far and Fukushima is an unprecedented failure of a nuclear reactor times 3. It will eventually kill many more people and it is far from over. At one point shortly after the explosions residents of Seattle were breathing air with ten hot particles per cubic meter. A hot particle is absorbed by the body which mistakes it for a nourishing mineral (hot particles don't occur naturally much at all so our bodies have no defense against them). The hot particle bombards surrounding tissue with products of radioactive decay and almost certainly will cause a cancer.
To get hot particles out of the body one has to become savvy in how to detox. Regular heavy sweating is a great thing to do. Also, zeolite and bentonite clay attract charged particles in the gut and out they go.
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Holy shit I have never seen such a highly concentrated amount of junk science.
Chernobyl didn't kill 1 million people, junk science aside. The WHO (yeah what does the world health organization know about health) puts total fatalities at 30,000 to 60,000.
"The hot particle bombards surrounding tissue with products of radioactive decay and almost certainly will cause a cancer."
Nope. You have "hot particles" (nonsense word which I think you mean radiation material) in your body right now. Billions of them. So by your definition every single human that has ever lived and ever will live has and will die of cancer.
Still EVEN IF Chernobyl killed 1 million people, coal kills many magnitudes more than that.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/lowering-deaths-per-terawatt-hour-for.html
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Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh)
Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Coal – China 278
Coal – USA 15
Oil 36 (36% of world energy)
Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy)
Biofuel/Biomass 12
Peat 12
Solar (rooftop) 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)
Wind 0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)
Hydro 0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)
Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)
When the US stopped building nuclear power plants we started ..... building coal plants. Millions of people killed over junk science fears about nuclear energy.
BTW the largest energy disaster in the history of mankind.... not Chernobyl, not Fukashima, not 3 mile island. It was a hydro electric plant in China called Banquiao. Estimated 171,000 casualties (3x Chernobyl).
I am not saying we should ban hydro but all forms of energy production have danger. More people die from solar (yup people falling off roofs) than nuclear energy. However one solar installer faling off the roof doesn't make a news story. OF course to produce the power from a single nuclear power plant requires tens of millions of solar plant installs and the combined deaths of all those installations do add up.[/code]
