Nuclear Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Not to mention that the mortality rate is measured in Deaths Per Trillions of kWhr and not something like deaths per year.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52598998]Not to mention that the mortality rate is measured in Deaths Per Trillions of kWhr and not something like deaths per year.[/QUOTE]
deaths per year is still going to favor nuclear because so few people are employed in the nuclear power industry compared to others. I'm not really sure there is a fair way to compare them since you're trying to compare something with little possibility of catastrophe but more continuous risk to workers with one that's extremely safe normally but has the potential for catastrophe.
Clearly there's a portion of this thread who clearly didn't get the fucking point of the vid.
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It also makes inefficient power sources seem more deadly since its measured by deaths per amount of power generated.[/QUOTE]
What a mindbogglingly stupid statement.
Of course it's measured in deaths per unit of energy generated. How else would you measure it when factoring in how much of the stuff needs to be generated?
[editline]22nd August 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52598998]Not to mention that the mortality rate is measured in Deaths Per Trillions of kWhr and not something like deaths per year.[/QUOTE]
How can you not realise that an energy source with a higher deaths per kWhr is going to have a higher death rate when scaled up to meet world energy demand?
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52599635]imho going full manfetus and screaming about how anyone who's critical of how nuclear power/waste is handled is automatically stupid and anti nuclear can only contribute to that kind of complacency.
Like we don't have all of this waste and contamination because hippies kept screaming "yuck nuclear hug trees!" we have it because someone, somewhere down the line said "eh not worth it, just deal with it later" for over 40 years.[/QUOTE]
Not only that, but I don't see the point of bringing up how safe nuclear power is, when a lot of the US high level nuclear waste comes from weapons development, which hasn't generated a single watt of electricity for anybody. The US has literal tons of nuclear waste that needs to be put as far away as possible from urban centers, and with a guarantee that their radioactivity won't leak into soil and water.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52598036]I had to do like 2 minutes of googling to find out that his show isn't bombing
[URL]http://www.inquisitr.com/4000749/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-feb-19-season-4-ratings/[/URL]
So I'm guessing this has more to do with insecurities about your political positions when contrasted with John's than anything else :thinking:[/QUOTE]
All I came here to do was make bad nuclear puns, stop reading too much into it.
And no i'm just sick of seeing him pat himself on the back everytime he mentions how bad donald trump is
[QUOTE=space1;52600257]All I came here to do was make bad nuclear puns, stop reading too much into it.
And no i'm just sick of seeing him pat himself on the back everytime he mentions how bad donald trump is[/QUOTE]
he isn't patting himself on the back?
[QUOTE=Big Bang;52599816]The US has literal tons of nuclear waste that needs to be put as far away as possible from urban centers, and with a guarantee that their radioactivity won't leak into soil and water.[/QUOTE]
Already fucking that up
[url]http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-depleted-uranium-in-syria/[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium[/url]
[QUOTE=Craptasket;52601540]Already fucking that up
[url]http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-depleted-uranium-in-syria/[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium[/url][/QUOTE]
DU is mostly dangerous when entering the body via contaminated food, water, or wounds, as it is chemically toxic. U-238, being the main component, is only very slightly radioactive via alpha particles. The biggest radiological concern is as it very slowly decays into thorium-234 and protactinium-234, which emit beta particles at the same rate, but they eventually decay back into U-234.
What dummies for using it on soft targets, though.
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