Effect of Hurricane Helene on the Solar Industry?

[NNadir]

8. Some time ago, I attended an author lecture at Princeton University about his book, "Nuclear Ghosts."

The author is Ryo Morimoto, who spoke quite eloquently about the effects of the evacuation and the disruption to the lives it caused. People want to return, and in my opinion should be allowed to do so.

Nuclear Ghosts

The death toll associated with radiation is basically very hard to differentiate from the background, if it exists at all.

It turns out that the death toll associated with the evacuation of nursing homes out of fear of radiation, was far higher than the death toll associated with radiation itself.

I link this paper and text on that topic fairly regularly.

Comparison of mortality patterns after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant radiation disaster and during the COVID-19 pandemic ( Motohiro Tsuboi et al 2022 J. Radiol. Prot. 42 031502)

It's open sourced, but an excerpt is relevant:

However, in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant(FDNPP) accident, no direct health hazards due to radiation, such as acute radiation injury, were observed, while various indirect health effects were reported even in the acute phase [2, 3]. Major health effects are attributed to the initial emergency evacuation and displacement, deterioration of the shelter environment, evacuation from nursing homes, and psychological and social health effects. In addition, there were also the effects of medical collapse, where lives that could normally be saved by medical care could not be saved due to a lack of medical resources [4, 5]. It is known that these effects are particularly susceptible to the socially vulnerable [6].

.

I added the bold.

Now the rest of the cited text - some of these authors live and work in Fukushima and have always done so; their institution is Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima City, Japan - indicates that the fear of radiation killed people, but radiation itself didn't. By the way, this group has published hundreds of papers on the topic.

Of course, fear of radiation is killing people, and in fact, the planet far beyond the confines of Fukushima. It's called "extreme global heating," and again, to my mind, it is a direct consequence of the fear and ignorance of people muttering insipidly about Fukushima and Chernobyl.

Recently there was a proposal to restore agriculture to the bulk of Chernobyl exclusion zone. Understanding, as I do, the dire needs of Ukraine as it fights a war against Russia that was funded by German antinukes buying gas, oil and coal from Russia because of their ignorant decision to shut its nuclear power plants, I oppose agriculture in the exclusion zone, not because of radiation risks, but because the absence of humanity has rendered the area into a precious wildlife preserve, a "viridian zone."