This one made my jaw hit the floor
Since Chernobyl was trending recently:
Did you know that workers at Chernobyl went back to work the same week
and continued working there every day for about another decade before the plant finally closed?
Did you know that you get more radiation exposure on a flight across the Pacific or Atlantic than you do at ground-zero Fukushima and ground zero Chernobyl?
I also remember being shocked that you get more radiation exposure on a int'l flight than "Ground Zero" Fukushima https://t.co/oMrCoQRE3J
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) January 31, 2016
Did you know that no one died at Three Mile Island?
and of the hundreds of thousands of people doing the Chernobyl cleanup (and that received heavy radiation doses) …
less than 50 people actually died?
Did you know that ALL of the spent fuel in the U.S. fits in an area the size of a football field?
and of that, the only bit of it that remains radioactive after a few decades, fits in ONE endzone?
Did you know Americans turned against nuclear energy mostly because of ONE movie?
It falsely confused Nuclear Energy with Nuclear Weapons because of the word “Nuclear”?
But in reality, the technologies are very different.
We know that the pace of advancement is proportional to the amount of cheap energy available to the economy. We know for tech to evolve, we will eventually need to abandon fossil fuels. But we also see you steering public opinion AWAY from the miracle energy we already posess. pic.twitter.com/1SBDM0aDt4
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) January 8, 2023
Did you know that nuclear energy is actually a reusable and quasi-renewable form of energy?
Did you know that nuclear energy doesn’t pollute?
I didn’t.
Did you know the “messy” nuclear tech was proliferated and shared with the rest of the world because of a POLITICAL decision?
They raced to market with the less-cleaner version just to beat the Russians.
(even though a cleaner reusable nuclear tech was available)
He has lots of keen observations about the time we are living in. But, it doesn't read like a madman living in the woods. It reads more like a social philosopher who writes MacroEconomic pieces for Stratfor or the FT London. Like this bit on our folly of nuclear proliferation pic.twitter.com/n2iLC82bQM
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) June 13, 2023
Anyway, the pattern once again holds up.
With nuclear, we see they’ve once-again been lying about yet another thing for a long time.
They didnt even know Chernobyl was in Ukraine in recent propaganda pieces.
These people are at best low-IQ, at worst: malevolent.
How Ukraine's dam collapse could become the country's 'Chernobyl' https://t.co/KWPP4aIaKA
— TIME (@TIME) June 12, 2023