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With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutoniumâconsidered the most lethal of all radioactive substancesâand nowhere in media that NASA projected 1-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released in an accident on the mission.
âA â1-in-960 chanceâ of a deadly plutonium release is a real concernâgamblers in Las Vegas would be happy with those odds,â says Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Indeed, big-money lotteries have odds far higher than 1-in-960 and routinely people win those lotteries.
Bill Gates, while motivated to help fight climate change, has also long been trying to make a success of his nuclear technology company Terra Power. The climate emergency presents him with the perfect opportunity to promote this, and especially, to get tax–payer funding to do it, as he suggests in his new book.
Elon Musk and Bill Gates: beware of gurus toting solutions to climate change
Elon Musk has grand plans to save the world. Bill Gates has just published his book ”How To Avoid a Climate Disaster”. They both envisage tax-payer funding for their solutions. But beware of gurus toting the solution to the planet’s crisis.