the energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity.
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Is the Fukushima disaster causing an increase in infant mortality on the west coast of North America?
Here we've got a claim that infant mortality in select US cities on the west coast has increased by 35% since the nuclear meltdown. This claim is based on two data points:
4 weeks ending March 19, 2011 - 37 deaths (avg. 9.25 per week)
10 weeks…
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Did the wind power industry produce more radioactive waste than nuclear power plants?
I was doing some extra research on the question: Did wind power supply less than half a percent of global energy in 2014? The question was based on an article that claimed:
But out of sight and out of mind is the dirty pollution generated ... by…
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Does a coal plant "kill more in a few weeks than nuclear has ever killed"?
Director Oliver Stone and Prof. Joshua Goldstein have created a film named "Nuclear Now", arguing in favor of installing more (modern) nuclear power plants to combat climate change and generally. In this interview on the Hill's 'Rising TV', Prof.…
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Were nuclear sub engineers told that when alarms go off they should grab a bar, until they have examined their instrument panel?
The book Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems by David J. Agans, which was first published in 2002, contains the following claim:
On nuclear-powered subs, there's a brass bar in front…
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Has nuclear power generation saved millions of lives from avoided air pollution?
In a recent paper in Environmental Science and Technology, Kharecha and Hansen argue that, by avoiding the airborne pollution that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning, millions of lives have been saved.
In their words:
Using historical…
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Did chemist Glenn Seaborg claim the Oklo reactor was man-made?
The Oklo mine in Gabon is thought to be the site of the only natural nuclear fission reactors.
An Instagram video posted by Instagram user matrixdisclosure claims it was actually man-made.
Nobel prize winner Glenn T. Seaborg also claimed that the…
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Have people died of cancer from the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident?
A Japanese person wrote in her diary today that her English tutor told her that a lot of people in Japan have got cancer due to the Fukushima daiichi nuclear accident, and were already dead last year (2012) because of it.
Is this the case?
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Is new nuclear power cheap?
A common theme amongst calls for nuclear power in Australian politics is the idea that nuclear power is cheap. For example, the United Australia party (Wikipedia) ran the below full page add making just that claim. There are other examples from the…
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Did U.K. nuclear power plants of the '80s play a continuous sound and indicate emergency by stopping it?
Allan Friswell's comment (scroll down) on this video for "O Superman" for Laurie Anderson contends:
The UK nuclear power stations of the 80s had that "ha" sound on continuously 24/7. Apparently it got so you stopped hearing it, and only when it…
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Does living near a nuclear power plant cause cancer?
One man who believes that nuclear energy is bad for nature told me that living near to a nuclear power plant causes cancer.
I visited one nuclear power plant and they confirmed the words of our physics teacher that the atomic energy is good for…
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Has ITER stated that their nuclear fusion device will consume more energy than it produces?
ITER is an experimental fusion reactor in development. According to Wikipedia, it's supposed to produce 10 times its input energy.
But according to New Energy Times, it seems to now be formally acknowledged that it will perform nowhere near…
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Would an EMP in the US Cause all of our active Nuclear Power Plants to melt down and explode?
In an article from the National Journal released and linked to from the Drudge Report today(28MAR2014), Peter Pry, "a former CIA officer and head of a congressional advisory board on national security" claimed that a single EMP that is large enough…
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Did a 16-year-old high-school girl in Iran produce nuclear energy at her home in 2007?
In 2007, Iran's president claimed that nuclear scientists in the country verified that a 16-year-old girl had produced nuclear energy at home.
At the time, this ended up being a point of jokes and derision, and few (if any) people took it seriously.…
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Have 1,822 people died in Fukushima as a result of the nuclear accident?
The news is showing photos of people protesting against the restarting of nuclear power plants in Japan. This photograph is making the rounds:
Have 1,822 people really died in Fukushima as a result of the nuclear accident? Where does this number…
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Did Ralph Nader say that a pound of plutonium could cause 8 billion cancers?
According to "The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity" by Bernard L. Cohen:
Plutonium is constantly referred to by the news media as ``the most
toxic substance known to man.'' Ralph Nader has said that a pound of
plutonium could cause 8 billion…
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