“The death toll from a Cassini accident was put by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, professor emeritus of radiological physics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, at 20 million to 40 million.
And this is not a sky-is-falling story. Of 28 U.S. space missions using plutonium, there have been three accidents, the worst in 1964 in which a plutonium-powered satellite fell back to Earth, breaking up and spreading the toxic radioactive substance widely.”
-Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Then why haven’t there been 60 million to 120 million deaths? And what about the other two “accidents”–which involved accidents in the spacecraft, not the RTG (nuclear battery)?
This reminds me of another conspiracy crowd.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Conspiracy, Environment, Fun With Statistics, Health, Safety
Posted on November 29, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
