It is interesting, because I remember doing Duck & Cover drills at school for nuclear blasts. I also remember asking my teacher why. See, since I was already a science fiction kid growing up on such, I knew that if we were close enough to feel the blast, we were going to be close enough for the radiation...which would almost certainly kill us. She just told me to get under the desk and be quiet.
It's a percentages thing. You're a hair safer under the desk then sitting in it or especially, running around or looking out windows directly at blasts, and so on. You might as well ask what do seatbelts do to protect you from flying glass, fire or being crushed by a semi. Like wearing a helmet in a construction site, when all the danger I have ever encountered in such places has been on the ground, where they keep all the nails and broken shards and whatnot. I've never injured any part of my body above my waist falling from a bike, but helmets are the only protection anyone ever mandates.
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don't Need Renewables
- 18/04/2019 07:33:37 PM
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It would be even better if more widely adopted.
- 18/04/2019 07:44:28 PM
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And according to Stan Lee, we will get superheroes out of it! *NM*
- 19/04/2019 03:55:21 AM
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I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me.
- 18/04/2019 08:56:01 PM
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Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me.
- 19/04/2019 03:53:24 AM
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Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me.
- 19/04/2019 06:56:30 PM
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You keep making points better than I could. I agree with your criticisms of the article. *NM*
- 19/04/2019 10:07:10 AM
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Do you think the GND would have been proposed or even cooked up if the president was a Democrat ?
- 20/04/2019 05:04:47 PM
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I assume then there would've been a less half-baked plan, indeed.
- 24/04/2019 06:20:52 PM
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I've never really connected the two...
- 18/04/2019 10:32:34 PM
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I never had much regard for that argument
- 19/04/2019 04:02:12 AM
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The real reason they hate solar and wind
- 19/04/2019 03:04:44 AM
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So as the nephew of nuclear power plant engineer, that means I'm the in-house expert & last word? *NM*
- 19/04/2019 04:08:45 AM
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You are the last word if we want to have a productive internet discussion 
- 19/04/2019 04:18:08 AM
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- 19/04/2019 04:18:08 AM
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We still lack a long-term nuclear waste repository.
- 19/04/2019 08:10:23 AM
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No, we don't lack it. You pointed that out. Yucca Mountain is perfect.
- 23/04/2019 02:20:06 AM
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There's no political willpower to fund it. Until that changes we have no repository for n-waste. *NM*
- 23/04/2019 07:46:10 AM
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Doesn't matter what the "willpower" is. We have it
- 23/04/2019 07:18:27 PM
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The checkbooks. Kind of hard to do anything without someone having the “will” to pay for it. *NM*
- 23/04/2019 08:34:58 PM
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The facility was never completed.
- 23/04/2019 11:08:27 PM
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I don't think that it would take that long to complete.
- 24/04/2019 10:59:35 AM
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The other part of creating new nuclear facilities will probably take longer than this part. *NM*
- 24/04/2019 07:27:40 PM
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The Left wants to establish a direct connection between climate change and the evils of capitalism
- 20/04/2019 12:13:49 AM
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