Stevenlmeyer they won't use Thorium reactors because they won't have the additional revenue from making nuke weapons.

Nuclear Fission is the splitting of the Uranium atom and in the process produces 100's of new radio active elements that never before existed on this planet. Many have half lives of thousands or millions of years and cannot be cleaned from the environment. So if one hot particle misses this year,it may get you the next.

Arnie Gunderson makes a good analogy on hot particles.Organisations such as the IAEA lump all radiation together and average this over our entire bodies. They do not discern between Gamma, Alpha or Beta rays. It is the Alpha rays of hot particles that our bodies mistake for elements like calcium that are the real danger. You cannot average a molecule of Caesium 137 over an entire body when it is lodged in your bone marrow causing cancer in a few cells.

One millionth of a gram of Plutonium will kill you. It is the deadliest element known to man and we created it.

Why does this insanity exist? We have made money our master when in fact should be our servant.

A very good article outlining the facts about radiation. Unfortunately facts will not convince a large proportion of the population as most people are very bad at making rational assessments about risks they do not understand. Paul Slovic describes this inability to assess and balance risk very well in his article in Science (April 1997). Even when the WHO states it very plainly

“28 FEBRUARY 2013 | GENEVA - A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated.”

some people continue to use lies to exploit this human characteristic in an attempt to scare people to their side of the argument. The above “1 million deaths from Chernobyl and Fukushima is worse” is a classic case.

Grumbler are you calling Dr Helen Caldicott and Prof Chris Busby liars? They don't not make profit from selling Uranium.

This whole system is controlled by the banking military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower alluded to in the early 1960's.Karen Hudes is a World Bank whistle blower and she says mathematicians have worked out that 147 corporations have control of this planet. They have shares in all our major banks (40%) plus the private central banks, the media, mining, energy, medicine etc. The 1% is more like 0.001% and they have absolute power.

Our Govts no longer create the money to equal increases in growth or inflation and our Govt must borrow from pivate central banks and tax us to pay for debt that is created from nothing. As George Carlin said," They've got your by the balls."

Why has the Japanese Govt censored its own journalists if nuclear is so safe?

Grumbler

>>Unfortunately facts will not convince a large proportion of the population....>>

In my experience people rarely surrender their cherished beliefs.

"Anti-nuclearism" has become a religion.

Education doesn't help either. The only difference between an educated true believer and an uneducated one is that the former is better at coming up with rationalisations

Great post; the hysteria of the anti-nuclear parade is reminiscent of the hysteria coming now from the global warmists/coolists.

Whenever I read or hear of the eternality of radiation I think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which are both now thriving cities. How do the anti-nukers explain that? The most obvious way is to say the bombs only had pounds of uranium whereas say Chernobyl had tonnes.

Obviously the bombs had a greater reaction efficiency but the question remains was the radiation from the bombs more pernicious and widespread than Chernobyl's meltdown? And if so how do the anti-nukers explain what is happening today in the cities.

It should also ne noted that any claim that 1000's have died from Chernobyl is outrageous scaremongering and that wildlife has now returned to the contaminated areas around Chernobyl.

Stevenlmeyer what a mean thing to say, but oh so true.

Unfortunately many of todays people will go to their grave believing so much garbage.

I expect the next generation will be driving cars with their fuel a small chip of nuclear material, installed on the production. I doubt not there will be some who fight against such advances however.