Planet 3 I try to welcome new posters.
In real life and here, just a few times, it seems a little hard for a few to fit in.
At sometime, lets face it we all make a judgment.
Arjay is one of us, been around a very long time,we except that.
But not, for most of us,some of his views.
And recent threads show that.
OK so far debate need not be nice, but we are branded fools, most of us.
I am now of the view I probably waste time talking to you.
I may be wrong, but you seem, on your post evidence, to have been invited here.
And while the subject,well I thought it was, is about the dangers of Nuclear power after the Japanese thing, has drifted.
Now its about? well weapons used by the USA?
A sure sign of willingness to turn this thread in to a child like verbal confrontation.
While my description of you is not a charge of sock puppet, what is your aim?
Are you and arjay acquainted?
Debate is best served by giving our own thoughts and opinions no matter what they are.
See you in another thread.

"and in turn leave far less waste which need only be contained for a few centuries at most.

Fester, your situation for debate has not improved.

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This forums comments are not addressing the real issue. The real issue was dealt with in Bertrand Russel's book "Can Man Survive" way back in the 1960's and by the the "Pugwash " Conference's of East/West Nuclear scientists that lobbied the the nuclear powers to abandon the then current nuclear energy and dismantle all nuclear weapons. The Issue was then and still now then "Can Man Survive". I do not think so, Indeed the fear a meltdown in the UK , or Nuclear war and did motivate me to move to Australia 40 years ago.

Fester,go to Arnie Gunderson's site http://www.fairewinds.com/ He is a nuclear engineer and has 39 yrs experience in nuke reactors.Currently he de-commissions them.You are sprouting ideas with no real scientific back-up.

Do you know the difference between nuclear fission and fusion?

Since the tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nucler power installatioin, 1.3 million people throughout the world have been killed in road crashes. By any sort of rational analysis, the so-called catastrophe at Fukushima pales into insignificance.
Over the same period, about 13000 people have lost their lives mining coal and the world has become more polluted by their efforts.

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It is estimated that one million people have died from cancer and other diseases from Chernobyl.This does not include the birth deformities and other congential malformations.Since 1900 cancer rates have trebled while other diseases of the heart etc, have fallen.
Sperm counts in Israel have fallen by 40% since the 1992 Gulf War due to the use of Depleted Uranium and other nuke devises that Prof Chris Busby talks about.The other Middle Eastern Countries have not done studies.

Genetic disorders in children since 1980 have increase markedly.They are the most suseptible to radiation since their cells are dividing rapidly.No real in depth studies are being done because cell destruction via radiation is slow,thus elicits no immediate response.

These new human created elements mimic the elements/compounds in our bodies and they are with us for life.Add into the mix all the nuke testing done since 1945 and we may soon not have an over population problem,but a population without enough genetic intregity to have any future.