Reject Nuclear Power -- Here's Why
Citizens do not want nuclear power 1 . They know it is both far too dangerous and far too expensive. Politicians want nuclear power because they know it puts Power in their hands. This is exactly paralleled by politicians embracing nuclear weapons. They think it gives them power and this is what they want above all else. Citizens do not want nuclear weapons because they know they are insanely dangerous and what they want is to live without the threat of sudden and complete annihilation hanging over them and their children at all times. As we will see there is a close relationship between the weapons and the power in every sense of the word.
Politicians have different agendas to the people on these issues. The remedy is for us to wise up, get organised and then instruct them to do what we want - or join the job market.
The main objections to nuclear power are outlined below under the following headings:
- Nuclear power stations are
prohibitively dangerous
- Nuclear power stations are
prohibitively expensive
- Nuclear power stations use the same
technology as that required to manufacture nuclear weapons
- The resulting nuclear waste will be
dangerous for thousands of years
- Plant and waste deposit storage are
vulnerable to terrorist attack
- Nuclear power stations epitomise the
centralisation of power
- Poor countries are made dependent on
rich ones
- These plants draw funds away from the
development of sustainable energy
- The uranium fuel will become
increasingly scarce.
- The support of nuclear power by
government results from special pleading lobbying by the industry.
These aspects are briefly expanded upon below.
Nuclear power
stations are prohibitively dangerous
There have now been four grave
nuclear reactor accidents: Windscale in Britain in 1957 (the one that is never
mentioned), Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979, Chernobyl in the
Soviet Union in 1986, and now Fukushima. Each accident was unique, and each was
supposed to be impossible.
A recent book, Chernobyl: Consequences
of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, concludes that, based
on records now available, some 985,000 people died between 1986 and 2004,
mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
Alice Slater, New York
representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, comments: "The tragic news
uncovered by comprehensive new research that almost one million people died in
the toxic aftermath of Chernobyl should be a wake-up call to people all over
the world to petition their governments to put a halt to the current
industry-driven 'nuclear renaissance.' Aided by a corrupt IAEA, the world has
been subjected to a massive cover-up and deception about the true damages
caused by Chernobyl."
At Fukushima we have the worst
industrial disaster ever. Three simultaneous ongoing complete meltdowns have
proven impossible to stop or contain since they started almost 2 years ago.
These meltdowns are still pouring radiation pollution across the Japanese
landscape.
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