Reply #7: Making a lot of claims but not backing up a single one of them -- the usual anti-nuker post

[txlibdem]

You said, "It seems to me that it is a fairly well understood quantity that can be fairly accurately calculated by knowing how much coal fuel is used in a given plant. This is the complete opposite of knowing how much nuke filth has spewed out of four exploded reactors in Japan. See the difference?"

You do not understand the difference between an "average" and the lower and upper bounds in thousands of data samples. The Uranium and Thorium in coal varies between 1 ppm and 2.5 ppm respectively to 10 ppm and 25 ppm. This information is in my post responding to the poster you claim is "correct" -- shown incorrect by data and facts from the same link they were cherry picking the data.

But it gets worse: coal ash concentrates the Uranium and Thorium between 10 and 100 times the amount that is naturally found in coal.

Please tell me where you have found the exact amount of Uranium and Thorium that is in the coal that *your* local coal power plant spews out or dumps into open pits and open "ash" slurry ponds. It could be the average... or it could be 10 times higher, which means that it's possible that the ash from that power plant contains 1000 times the natural amount of Uranium and Thorium.

You said, "You're challenged every step of the way and at every turn for your continued illogical ranting, lack of comprehension of simple mathematics and general stupidity."

Now there you're way off base. I am not "challenged" with factual data nor truth. Most anti-nukers have only the talking points that they've been programmed with and when those are easily brushed off with truth, facts, and data then it's down to junior high school debate tactics, logical fallacies, name-calling, or the glorious sound of crickets.

You then said, "blah, blah, blah You live next to a coal power plant and up is down and wrong is right. Got that???"

How does one respond to an attempt to turn the truth in my posts to lies, to turn coal --the deadliest and least controlled energy source in the world-- into the an innocent victim of "the terrible pro-nuclear posters on DU." If you have a specific claim to make then please make it. You have just as many keyboards at your disposal as I do (gray matter perhaps not so much).