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    1 year ago

    Oil companies are ultimately to blame. After all, it was the Rockefeller Foundation who did the early radiation studies in the 50s, and then blatantly lied about the results to make radiation sound super scary. They claimed that there was no safe dose of radiation, and that any exposure, no matter how small, led to a direct, linear, increase in cancer risk.

    And then the oil companies funded politicians who declared education to be the enemy, so now Americans don’t know enough physics to know that every day, they are swimming in safe doses of ionizing radiation. That ocean water has millions of tons of natural uranium oxide dissolved in it.

    US nuclear policy has been based off of these lies, it’s part of why nuclear power is so expensive.

    Those same oil companies actually paid to found Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to specifically advocate against nuclear power, by spreading fear and lies about how nuclear physics work.

    The Rockefeller foundation still funds Greenpeace, and still requires that Greenpeace be anti-nuclear to receive that funding. All while being heavily invested in oil.

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        1 year ago

        Because those are Military. They need to work and not be dependent on a few multi-national companies for fuel.

        Besides, those things are designed by people who actually know nuclear physics, and are not hamstrung by review boards and astroturf protest movements.

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            1 year ago

            Yes, oil is a massive issue for world militaries. You just figured that part out?

            Also, you missed part of the sentence;

            not hamstrung by review boards and astroturf protest movements.