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Sumsar01 t1_isfj3ji wrote
Reply to comment by 8Splendiferous8 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
Well nuclear physics is kind of a everything goes meeting put because we cant efficiently compute QCD, so it is pretty wild.
Sumsar01 t1_isfixsa wrote
Reply to comment by Hohumbumdum in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
Well I cited a stanford paper. You can also go look what they the research groups monitoring the situation say.
Sumsar01 t1_isfhpgw wrote
Reply to comment by Hohumbumdum in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
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.
Sumsar01 t1_isfgcz8 wrote
Reply to comment by 8Splendiferous8 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
There is probably plenty of more details but i would have to provide real data and lecture notes. But what I can say is that all my nuclear physics professors where huge proponents for nuclear power and talked a lot about it in both the nuclear physics courses l took.
Sumsar01 t1_isfc695 wrote
Reply to comment by 8Splendiferous8 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
Nuclear power is currently the second safest energy scource based on death per joule. Caol kills about 15 times as many people every years as nuclear has done ever. Which thus leaves a pretty big margin to what we deem acceptable.
Nuclear disasters are pretty rare. There is chernobyl which was many mismanagement but besides that what happened was a explosion of the 300+ degrees hot steam. In never nuclear plant designs the water is emptied out if power is cut and thus such a thing could not happen.
Then we have fukushima. Besides it maybe not being to smart building a nuclear powerplant in the most active earthquake zone might not be to smart. Currently total death from radiation is 0 and no increase in cancer has been measured.
The leak of radioactive waste has also been deemed harmless. Probably mainly because water is pretty good at absorbing radiation, so it doesnt matter much to the fish.
Sumsar01 t1_isa1yib wrote
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Lets pretend Marxism doesnt have a history start with Marx himself.
Sumsar01 t1_is9m86f wrote
Reply to comment by 8Splendiferous8 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
Physicist here. Fukushima is the second worst nuclear plant disaster ever and its result is so minisucule that we cant measure any adverse results on environment or population.
There also already exist nuclear engines underground naturally, so its already unavoidable to have nuclear waste there.
Sumsar01 t1_is9ljjp wrote
Reply to comment by PAXICHEN in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
Its still not a big problem. You can just store them in the ground. There already exist natural underground nuclear engines and we can always place it away from ground water if that worries people.
Sumsar01 t1_isfotxx wrote
Reply to comment by 8Splendiferous8 in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
I read the russian lecture book for the exams of the seconds course. I like my books with a bit more math and a bit less hand wavy, but it helped a lot.
The first course was a mess.