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This guy is one of those iconoclastic fellows who people partially agree with on one point, and completely disagree with on another. It's pretty hard to reconcile nuclear energy with the idea that the planet self-regulates since nuclear energy screws most of those self-regulatory mechanisms up and seems to require vast sums of time to undo.

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Wildlife wise the area around Chernobyl isn't doing that bad after one of the worst nuclear disaster we could imagine. For longer lived lifeforms like humans it's much more problematic, but shorter lived creatures experience less decay events and are less effected. The hottest nuclides decay in the range of decades. The long lived stuff decays much more slowly, hence is less dangerous.

Unless you are human.

What natural mechanism do you belive nuclear energy to influence?

Radioactivity--particularly waste/water.

That's fine you think that -- links?

https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2020/05/22/fukushimas...

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