# Nuclear Power **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 1, 2011, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-power/576752 "2011-04-01T10:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 209
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-power/576752/209 "2011-08-13T16:24:48Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Can you quote a single poster who has said that there is no possibility of death from nuclear power? Just a single one? Obviously you made up the strawman " there is no possibility of death from nuclear power", rather than responding to what was actually said. I stated, “And just like the coal industry, nuclear apologists deny any possibility of death happening from nuclear power.” This denial takes many forms, but the essence can be gleaned from here with ease. Remember, it about the denial of the possibility of death. > [@Contrast different power sources in a disaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrast-different-power-sources-in-a-disaster/574696/12): > > Nuclear power plant deaths are vanishingly small in the scheme of things.. Message\> Deaths from nuclear power are so few they just don’t matter. > [@Why is the Left so afraid of nuclear power?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-left-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power/529708/89): > > Car collision death=real, valid concern. Nuclear accident death=unrealistic concern. Message\> It’s unrealistic to be concerned about deaths from nuclear power plants. > [@Why is the Left so afraid of nuclear power?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-left-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power/529708/374): > > So, US hot dogs are more of a threat to the health and safety of children than Chernobyl is/was. Message\> eating is far more dangerous than a meltdown and explosion at a nuclear plant. > [@Why is the Left so afraid of nuclear power?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-left-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power/529708/371): > > FWIW it is possible to build inherently safe nuclear reactors. Message\> If only people would stop prventing it, we could build a safe reactor. Nobody has yet of course, but they could. > [@Why is the Left so afraid of nuclear power?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-left-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power/529708/383): > > Maximum radiation dose potentially received by anyone living near Three Mile Island during or after the accident: 100 millirems. > Health effects of any kind found after an extensive, 30 year study of the population around Three Mile Island: ZERO. Message\> Nobody was even harmed, much less ever died from cancer or anything. > [@Contrast different power sources in a disaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrast-different-power-sources-in-a-disaster/574696/25): > > TMI had a fatality? Can you provide more information? Offhand I don’t _recall_ any deaths. Message\> Obviously exactly what I stated. There isn’t even a possibility that anyone died from TMI. Nobody even got sick. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-power/576752)._