{"id":39008,"date":"2011-03-24T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:03:07","slug":"nuclear-power-as-the-%e2%80%9cshark-attacks%e2%80%9d-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/24\/nuclear-power-as-the-%e2%80%9cshark-attacks%e2%80%9d-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear power as the \u201cshark attacks\u201d of energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was at a coffee shop recently and a SWPL<\/a> couple (woman had dreads<\/a> to boot!) a number of tables away were reading a newspaper, and the husband expressed worry about the Fukushima disaster<\/a>. The wife responded that “now other people will understand how dangerous nuclear power is,” with a sage nod. They then launched into twenty minutes of loud righteous gibberish about chemicals (I had a hard time making sense of it, despite the fact that I learned a lot about chemicals in the past due to my biochemistry background). Because they’d irritated me I was curious and I tailed them as they left. Naturally they had driven<\/em> to get coffee in a S.U.V. of some sort (albeit, a modestly sized one which looked like it was more outfitted for the outdoors’ activities common in the Pacific Northwest; they’d probably done their cost vs. benefit<\/em> about those chemicals!<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

In terms of radiation fears, I suspect that if more people just automatically knew the inverse-square law<\/a> in relation to the drop off of its effects we’d be in a whole lot less …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image Credit: Stefan Kuhn<\/p>\n

I was at a coffee shop recently and a SWPL couple (woman had dreads to boot!) a number of tables away were reading a newspaper, and the husband expressed worry about the Fukushima disaster. The wife responded that “n…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204,129,388,365,1205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-environmentalism","category-futurism","category-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39105,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions\/39105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}