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Towns like Picher, Oklahoma, will still be toxic when the sun goes out. Radioactive Ceasium and Strontium are a pain for a few decades - lead, mercury and cadm
by iujyhgtfhj 16y ago
Towns like Picher, Oklahoma, will still be toxic when the sun goes out.
Radioactive Ceasium and Strontium are a pain for a few decades - lead, mercury and cadmium are for ever.
- gamble 16y agoNon-sequitor. Just because something else is bad doesn't make this situation any better.
- iujyhgtfhj 16y agoOh my god they had a nuclear accident in Japan - we must shut down our nuclear reactors and instead pump out many millions of tons of dangerous radioisotopes and chemical poisons from new coal plants instead. It's standard knee jerk procedure. We had a rail accident (the first in 10years) so the reaction was to close a bunch of inter city lines for months while they checked everything. Where did all those extra travellers go? onto the roads! I hope the government doesn't hear about the problems with Toyota in america - they would then ban ABS and give everybody Tiger tanks to commute on.
- code_duck 16y agoI think most people who are opposed to nuclear are hoping governments and industry will seriously pursue more sustainable and non-toxic sources of power, not coal.
- code_duck 16y agoRadioactive metals are still toxic as heavy metals even when they're not radioactive, though. Uranium, for instance, is just as bad as lead, or worse.