Reply #7: Because it's really dumb?

[NNadir]

Tritium concentrations in the atmosphere are easily measured.

There is NOT ONE anti-nuke on this website who recognizes that tritium concentrations in the atmosphere, unlike the carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere about which anti-nukes couldn't care less, have been falling since 1963, dramatically.

Thus everyone who was born since 1963 has been living with more tritium than is on the planet now.

Interestingly, 1963 was about the time that nuclear power started to become a significant form of energy on the planet.

I explored this assinine bit of selective attention some years back:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/1/17162/29083 ">Profile of Radioactive Substance Associated With Nuclear Power: Tritium.

It is easy to calculate that the number of deaths that may be attributed to tritium on the entire planet is somewhere in the neighborhood of between 10 and 20, many of them probably attributable to medical and scientific use of the isotope.

Generally, because anti-nukes know almost no science, they don't even recognize that the tritium burden - especially given the low energy output of tritium compared to K-40, is vastly lower than the burden from bananas.

The energy output of tritium, per decay, is 0.019 MeV, sort of trivial among radioisotopes. By contrast, the burden of K-40, a naturally occuring radioisotope that is unavoidable if one wishes to stay alive, is 1.505 MeV.

http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ton/nuc1.html

Note that there is NOT ONE anti-nuke anywhere who gives a rat's ass that nearly every coal plant on the entire planet kills more people that all the nuclear plants on the planet.

Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly superior to all the stuff that anti-nukes don't care about. It needs to be vastly superior, which happily, it is.