![]() On the other hand, he himself plans together with a powerful elite. The devil is in the details, I leave you with a very good quote to ponder: ".one of the contradictions of Soros' activism: On the one hand, he propagates an "open society" without central planning of a powerful elite. RE: “But with Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening to use nuclear weapons if the West tries to intervene militarily, could an already horrific conventional war become something far worse? “ Yes, unequivocally, as this “becoming something” is already occurring, in fact, globally. Over 10 million lives would have been saved from reduced air pollution. If we had continued to build nuclear power plants in the previous century atmospheric C02 levels would be much lower now and reducing them further would be very cheap. Applying such strict regulation on radioactivity causes considerable harm! Indeed it could be argued that this regulatory mishap is a major cause of climate change. This is why exposure to air pollution in Tokyo shortens you life more than exposure to the radioactivity in the Fukushima exclusion zone. Indeed the level of PM10 particles (the most dangerous component of air pollution) considered 'safe' is associate with a 1-2% increase in mortality. This is lower than the impact of air pollution in a typical city. However no measurable effects of radioactivity on human health have been measured below 100 mSv/year, and even this dose produces a small (`~1%) increase in whole-life mortality. Currently regulation require that exposure is less than 1 mSv per year above background levels. The reason for this paradox of great fear but little actual impact is that radioactivity is a lot less dangerous than is implied by our very strict regulations on what are acceptable levels of exposure too humans. At most 200 deaths from radioactivity exposure after Chernobyl and no deaths after Fukushima. ![]() In fact, even the two worst nuclear accidents of all time, at Chernobyl and Fukushima, caused relatively little harm through effects on radioactivity. This is based on the assumption that an external attack of a nuclear plant or the waste stored on site would release dangerous levels of radioactivity. It is rather sad that people are writing articles about the threat imposed by nuclear power plants as a weapon of war. notes, political and technological change will always introduce new issues, which means that the work of maintaining a “just deterrence” is never done. Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, policymakers may have no choice but to create new institutions to manage global threats. Similarly, El Hassan bin Talal of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Sundeep Waslekar of Strategic Foresight Group call for a new global security architecture to tackle mounting nuclear and other existential threats.īut Yuriy Gorodnichenko of the University of California, Berkeley, and Torbjörn Becker of the Stockholm School of Economics take a harder line, and urge NATO to revive its Cold War deterrence doctrine of mutual assured destruction in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency, explains why not only reactors but also warheads have returned to the center of geopolitics, and outlines how the world can resume the task of freeing itself of nuclear weapons. And Bennett Ramberg, writing before the Russian invasion, saw a major catastrophe involving one or more of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors as the biggest underappreciated risk of an eventual war. Buiter thinks financial markets remain in denial about the rising risk of a nuclear conflict, which seems likelier now than it has in decades. In this Big Picture, Columbia University’s Willem H. But it is far from clear whether political leaders fully recognize the dangers and have a credible strategy for mitigating them. Besides causing widespread death, destruction, and displacement, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also increased the risk of a radiological disaster and even nuclear war.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |