...of ignorance in the coming weeks for sure.

Which has killed more people, the air pollution coal and gas burned to power the computers of people whining about Chornobyl or radiation exposures from the reactor?

Worldwide of course, since 1986, at a rate of about seven million deaths per year from fossil fuel waste, aka air pollution, not even counting the death toll from extreme weather and fossil fuel wars, somewhere between 250 and 300 million people died from exposure to air pollutants.

For the record, until the Chornobyl reactor blew up with the core burning for weeks, I was in the class of dumb shit antinukes, not even in the class of "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes. Then the worst reactor failure in history took place establishing for all times the consequences of the worst case. I realized that it's not even close to the worst energy disaster of all time, not close even to the Banquio renewable energy (dam) disaster in 1976, which killed approximately 200,000 people in about a week, nor the disaster about which antinukes clearly don't give a flying fuck, the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere.

Which did more damage to Kiev, about 100 km from Chornobyl, in the last 40 years, or fossil fuel powered weapons of mass destruction financed by German antinukes or radiation from the reactor dumping almost its full inventory of volatile fission products?

Thanks for the emotive photographs. They say everything we need to know about antinuke fear mongering.

Nuclear power need not be without risk to be vastly superior to all other forms of energy. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

Climate scientist Jim Hansen and his colleague, which for some reason antinukes like to quote around here, calculated, including Chornobyl, that nuclear power saved more than a million lives.

Have a nice day.

I am, however, "pro-truth."

One criterion involves selective attention.

Another is, well, carrying on about Chornobyl and Fukushima, both of which are trivial events on the scale of the collapse of the planetary atmosphere or even on the scale of the less discussed 1976 Banqiao serial dam failure event.

Fukushima is interesting in this regard, since around 20,000 people died from seawater and collapsed buildings and it's difficult to say if anyone died from radiation exposure. Nevertheless we never hear concerns about the safety of living in coastal cities in an Earthquake zone, something much worsened by the climate disaster well underway but we hear all the time about nuclear safety.

I don't credit self reporting. The Orange Pedophile in the White House says he's a very stable genius. I obviously judge how I view him based on his actual actions and words.

I define antinukes based on their words and actions. I know an antinuke when I see one.

I of course expect lots of selective attention in the coming weeks about Chornobyl, very little about the ongoing death toll associated with combustion of coal in Germany. It was the German response to Fukushima and Chornobyl that lead to the German decision to kill people by running coal plants because they shut their nuclear plants.

Antinukes and "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes will be carrying on for quite some time this year, about Chornobyl, a major paroxysm, of their selective attention. The media will go crazy with it.

Here at DU we'll hear all about it, usually couched in appalling nonsense saying we don't "need" nuclear energy because the unreliable and unsustainable mass and land intensive so called "renewable" solar and wind are so great, coupled with illiterate "percent talk." There will be no corresponding effort to prove we don't need fossil fuels.

By the way is there an impetus in the Chornobyl hype industry to show evocative photographs of the waste lands of wildfire residue all over the world because we have never used nuclear energy to its full potential?

Enquiring minds want to know.

As for "truth" it is true while we talk all about Chornobyl the planet is burning all over the place from climatic extremes.

All the hydrogen bullshit, all the battery bullshit, all the bulldozed wilderness for so called "renewable energy" industrial plants and the vast mining pits to create them has done nothing to prevent this.

That's a "truth" I accept.

Have a wonderful afternoon.