With ~150,000 megatons(*) worth of fission byproducts lying about, waiting for the next accident/natural disaster/Loss of cooling/war to be released into biosphere. The last thing we need, to is increase that inventory above the ~5,500 megatons we currently are producing each year.
(*)Note: Assumes Megaton's worth of fission isotopes is created for every 0.4tWh of electricity produced by a NPP, No accounting for decay since much of the radioactive food chain isotopes, (Internal radiators, Sr-90, Cs-134, Cs-137, I-129), are still around, and will still be around for decades/centuries/thousands of years.
World wide, atmospheric weapons testing released 100-200 megatons of fission byproducts. The addition of those radio-isotopes to our biosphere sent at least 60 million humans to an early grave
Fukishima's melt thru cores (reactor units 1,2 and 3) contained somewhere between 80 and 174 megatons worth of fission byproducts. If their contents make it into the biosphere, it would be very close to equaling All the atmospheric N-weapons testing to date. Sending at least another 60+ million humans to an early grave.
One can only imagine the outcome, if a significant portion of 150,000 Megatons worth of globally stored radio-isotopes were released into the biosphere. Mankind, being the apex predator, would be lucky to survive such a release.
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