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The benefit in entirely due to human beings virtually vacating the region. There is nothing to suggest that radioactivity has anything to do with it at all.

Of course. Radioactivity is a thing to be minimized but it has been less dangerous to animals in the region than was first thought.

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Because the capital commitment is immense, as is the time it takes for any kind of healthy return on investment.

And this is why nuclear and the oil industry is pushing so hard to get more concessions from government! If it comes to a straight head-to-head competition with renewables, they're fast reaching the time (if not already there) where they are no longer competitive without using government to prop up their businesses.

In Africa and Asia already, new powerplant projects are being mothballed because potential investors fear too many are buying solar panels, solar cookers and windmills to make the power stations and the electrical grids profitable.

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Anybody who believers exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

-- Kenneth Boulding,

1973

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Nuclear power's record is a lot safer than most people think. Even one of its most infamous disasters has brought surprising benefits to the environment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_power/2013/01/wildlife_in_chernobyl_debate_over_mutations_and_populations_of_plants_and.html

Great! Everyone in the radioactive pool!

Anybody who believers exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

-- Kenneth Boulding,

1973

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What does nuclear energy have to do with the "war on data"?

Well, off the top, it's another industry that benefits from limiting public access to information.

Anybody who believers exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

-- Kenneth Boulding,

1973

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