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Hohumbumdum t1_isffihl wrote

Reply to comment by Sumsar01 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat

Sounds like BS. How can we not measure any adverse results. The popular understanding is that immense amount of radioactive waste was dumped directly into the Pacific. Is that not the case?

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Sumsar01 t1_isfhpgw wrote

Its the case a nuclear material was dunped into the pacific, and you can measure that and right after there was a lot of fear mongering about it.

However the emperical evidence does not seem to show that it is as bad as one might think. From "the environmental impact of the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster" paper: despite the significant increase in ceasium isotope levels in the water, their risk is below thode generally considered harmfull to Marine animals and human consumers.

The same goes for the japanese population, there has not been found an increase in the cancer rate after the incident. (At least last i checked) Thise who died mostly died from being moved and not from the actual incident.

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Hohumbumdum t1_isfil89 wrote

I’m all for nuclear power, but this sounds like absolute nonsense.

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Sumsar01 t1_isfixsa wrote

Well I cited a stanford paper. You can also go look what they the research groups monitoring the situation say.

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