Reply #1: Of course, everyone here TRUSTS implicitly the gas frackers though. [View All]

[NNadir]

Unlike the gas companies who OWN the anti-nuke position outright - who destroyed Maine Yankee with paranoia and stupidity and replaced it with GAS - everybody trusts gas, right?

Why? Because they couldn't care less about risks that matter.

The numbers are clear enough, although there is NOT ONE anti-nuke who can understand numbers:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05me.xls#_fntref3

Let's be clear on something. When Maine Yankee was shut by ignorance, people died as a result, since climate change kills.

Zero people in Maine or in Vermont or in any other state have been killed by commercial nuclear power in this country in 50 years of operation.

If the gas industry were required to meet nuclear standards for safety, if the wind industry were required to meet nuclear standards for safety, if the toxic solar semiconductor industry were required to meet nuclear standards for safety, they would all collapse within ten minutes.

The NRC, and its predecessor the AEC presided over a fifty year history in which the number of public deaths associated with operations of commercial nuclear power has been zero.

That's an extraordinary record, but not one that the anti-nukes know how to measure.

We can contrast this with the failed solar industry, that can't after 50 years of mindless blather, can't produce the energy of two Vermont Yankees.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.html

How come we don't have bourgeois consumer anti-nukes here scrutinizing every risk associated with the solar fantasy?

Probably because the dead mostly aren't white.