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Re energy, I agree with Cindy that we should be very very cautious about seeing nuclear as a remedy. There is just too much corruption around money and shortcuts that suggest to me that humans are not capable of handling this. My thought is to look to indigenous ways of being and also I'm thinking of sane ways of living exemplified by Scott and Helen Nearing. I realize that people in the u.s. don't like hearing this, but of course if we don't make sane choices, other choices will be made for us.

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Thanks for your input and for listening!

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body positivity. :)

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that's it!

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Cindy, I watched ''Nuclear Now'' too. The only error I saw was that the VA has found that radiation exposure in nuclear submarines can cause cancer, which can be a service connected disability. Thorium molten salt reactors are completely fail-safe. Therefore, the rulers of the world could actually save the planet by using a Manhattan Project to build safe nuclear reactors. Thank you for posting this.

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There were a lot of errors and things that got left out...how Marie Curie died of cancer due to radium poisoning--uranium mining is dangerous and people who do it have very high chances of lung cancer--that waste can be managed safely, but it hardly ever is. If there is a corner, it will be cut. It's also a very expensive energy.

There is just so much that can go wrong. Does that mean that if we weren't living in diseased capitalism, that nuclear energy can be safe?

I do have to look further into thorium. That's promising.

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LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

This is the best lay-person video on nuclear energy:

Is Thorium Our Energy Future? | Answers With Joe (16-min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuxjHLLk0E

Thorium reactors burn the waste from the old reactors

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Dakota, in regard to nuclear you may want to look into the pollution created by uranium mining. Ask the Lakota what they think about uranium mining going on around their territory in South Dakota. About 15 years ago I toured a former uranium site with members of the Lakota. The mining interests had dumped the radioactive tailings in open piles covered with plastic tarps that rotted away in the sun. The dust was simply blowing around in the ever-present SD wind. In another area, they were injecting waste into underground "wells" which contaminated the water in the aquifer. The shoddy waste disposal done by uranium mining interests contaminated the water supply for main settlements of the Cheyenne River reservation. Cheyenne River is one of the poorest areas of the US. They had just completed a water treatment plant to provide clean water to their people. Shortly after this, the water supply was contaminated. The mining industry has had blatant disregard for the safety of the Lakota people and others who live in that area. There are documented spikes in different types of cancers. The environmental activist I had volunteered to accompany had survived thyroid cancer, a disease impacting many Lakota in that area. At the time, there were also cattle getting cancer on local ranches. Additionally, South Dakota is home to one of the biggest aquifers in the world, the Ogallala Aquifer. It provides drinking water to millions of people. This aquifer is under threat of contamination by the uranium mining industry's waste disposal practices.

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