#and the disaster isn’t just contained to the incident. yeah some people may die immediately from regular causes

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had to unfollow someone I really liked cause they support nuclear power and kept ragging on people who didn’t believe in it calling them ignorant and as bad as antivaxxers and it’s like man. I’m not dumb because I disagree with you. Radiation is fucking terrifying, and the idea that being scared of something that will proveably kill you in horrific ways is the same as being scared of proveably safe vaccines that save lives is a cruel mischaracterization.

#radiation is one of my biggest fears #and I’m absolutely anti nuclear power #because three mile island and chernobyl showed us that human error can always override machine safety #and fukishima showed us that even the safest machines can’t survive every natural disaster #like I don’t support fossil fuel power but jesus #like the bp spill was terrible coal accidents are terrible #but oil spills can be cleaned up. you can wash rocks and animals even if it takes a long time #and power plant accidents are tragic but the people that die are confined to the people that die in the immediate incident #nuclear power accidents? oh no it doesn’t work like that #wherever the radiation touches is contaminated #and the highly irradiated areas? unlivable within our lifetimes. within tens of thousands of our lifetimes #and the disaster isn’t just contained to the incident. yeah some people may die immediately from regular causes #some may die from radiation poisoning #but radiation causes cancer. there are people who survived these events who are dying from it now #because regardless of what they’ll tell you — THERE IS NO SAFE AMOUNT OF RADIATION #even the smallest amount WILL change your dna #the smaller amounts are more likely to change junk dna that doesn’t actually code for anything sure #but any amount has the possibility of changing dna that will lead to cancer #and you wouldn’t even know until 40 years later because that’s how long on average it takes the cancer to develop #and even then the disaster can STILL KILL PEOPLE even after the disaster is over!!! #there were russian soldiers in chernobyl who dug up the wrong dirt and got radiation poisoning #the reactor is concealed within two separate containment buildings but the disaster can STILL KILL PEOPLE #it’s not safe there and for all we know all of humanity could be dead before we’d be able to live there again #solar and wind have their problems sure but #nuclear just isn’t worth it because all you need is ONE fuckup for things to go wrong for so many people for so long