CO2 alarm and nuclear power advocacy (Geert de Vries)

CO2 and Man-Made Global Warming Geert de Vries, physicist South Africa June 12, 2017 Some nuclear people are not brighter than greens, they also believe in CO2 causing global warming because they are trained to accept as gospel whatever is printed. So they promote their CO2-free nuclear technology as a remedy.

One day, when the CO2 scam is finally unmasked, some nuclear advocates will stand there as part of the scam. Meanwhile our climate varies due to solar and oceanic causes.

It all started with the requirements in the erroneous LNT hypothesis, a left-over from the 1950s when knowledge about radiation effects was still insufficient, and the direst consequences were postulated. Not experimentally established, just postulated. LNT is basically equivalent to forcing traffic to walking pace preceded by the guy with the red flag. Nuclear‘s red flag is responsible for an estimated 600 of the 1600 people who died prematurely in Japan as a result of the unnecessary evacuations. The other estimated 1000 resulted from the forced evacuation due to the tsunami. LNT keeps bedeviling the industry, aided and abetted by the derived requirements in ALARA. Mind you, while I worked on Koeberg in the 70s to 90s, I also accepted LNT, it was part of the upbringing. It took me several of the eight years of working at PBMR developing the documents related to safety (GDCs for high temp reactors, defense in depth strategy, redundancy policy, management of uncertainties related to systems’ unavailability and to physical variables going outside their design basis range, etc) to figure out it was another religion to be dropped.

Safety is important; the measures taken shall be logical, rational and adequate. More than that, and they cause design & construction cost- and time–overruns, increased O&M costs, and complexity and potentially lower safety.

As Pogo said many years ago "We have met the enemy and it is us."