Category: Misconceptions
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Population and climate
The climate emergency, cost-of-living crisis and wellbeing are the top concerns of young people in the UK and I argue that the latter two issues can be reduced if climate change and energy poverty are properly addressed. ‘Too many people’ may be true in respect of, say, urban planning, but for understanding why climate change,…
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Educational material: A Bird’s Eye View & LNT illustrations
The Migration: The Bird Branes have chosen their family migration destination this year. Avoiding all those renewable hazards they are going to Chernobyl. How sensible! The safest place to go. Low-Level Radiation concerns: Henrietta learns that Mums like her don’t need to worry about mutations from nuclear power. Nuclear for Reliability: This illustration explains the…
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10 Misconceptions about nuclear power
CREDIT DUE TO Professor Wade Allison: Author of Radiation and Reason and Nuclear Is for Life
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Inevitable Breaches of Safety
Unless you are a specialist on radiation, a lot can be left to the imagination, and as we cannot sense radioactivity, our fear comes from the unknown. From some careful reading around the subject, the collective agreement as to what makes a ‘safe’ level of radiation, are somewhat biased; recent research into the cell biology…
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Fukushima Lessons Learned
Despite the negative press, the human health effects from radiation at Fukushima have been proven to be nil. So is it justified to label Fukushima a disaster? Perhaps the breach in the radiation levels as based on a dose-response relationship known as the linear non threshold (LNT) model is, for all intents and purposes a model…