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Monday, September 5 - 4:42pm

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Whether Chernobyl killed 4,000 people or 4,000,000, it's irrelevant to today's discussions of nuclear power. It's like bringing up the Titanic when debating the safety of modern-day shipping, or constantly referring to Enron when contemplating the risks of stock market investments (which is, incidentally, another common tactic of the left).

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Monday, September 5 - 4:59pm

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Andrew-
You are completely right about the technology. However, no one uses the Titanic to denounce ocean travel. As long as the public fails to grasp it and the environmentalists lie about, I believe those numbers from Chernobyl are important. Chernobyl to this day remains a poster-child for the likes of Green Peace et.al. Would that we could educate the public to understand it the way you talked about it. Maybe that could be a War Room project.

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Tuesday, September 6 - 2:44am

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Hmm, there is nothing to dispute the death toll, but Chernobyl never was about death in the first place. It is not the death toll that is ultimately interesting to scientists, but the influence of radiation on genoms and subsequently on genetic legacies.
We need to determine in what range radiation can cause fluctuations and mutations in human genoms and what kind of illness (mostly genetical) can result from it.

Chernobyl is a lesson that we shouldn't carelessly use nuclear power and certainly avoid giving nuclear technology to socialist regimes. It is however no poster-child to declare nuclear power a no-no. This is something Greens don't recognize (or don't want to admit). They want power sources without CO2-emissions and they got one powerful source: nuclear fission.
However, they don't enjoy it, because there is a downside (as in every energy source): nuclear waste (uranium).
Their fear of nuclear waste (and perhaps their tradition in hating nuclear power) prevents an objective analysis of the pros and cons of nuclear power and the storing of nuclear waste.

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Tuesday, September 6 - 9:44am

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Chernobyl was a plant which employed an already outmoded method which was never used by any other nuclear power plant. To use it as any model of inherent danger amounts to fraud.
(Edited by robert malcom on 9/06, 9:45am)

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Tuesday, September 6 - 11:14am

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Of course, but this wasn't my prime intention. The issue that has been addressed above is the data about radiation on the human body.
And in this respect, we (scientists) are not primarily interested in the number of deads, but rather in the secondary and not so obvious results like genetic mutation.