Now that nuclear energy generation is the status-quo, new generations of "useful idiots" repeat the half-truths and blatant lies about it that sold it in the first place. I do not waste my time arguing with deluded, misinformed people.
Some knowledgeable people who understand what's really at stake, what's really going on are Bob Wasserman, Dr. Helen Caldicott and former US energy official Robert Alvarez.
Get the other side of the nuclear debate. Then do the right thing. Demand that government get rid of these unnecessary and insane monuments to centralized power and control.
If Three Mile Island taught some people nothing at all, then Chernobyl? Are some minds so impervious to logic, reason, facts, evidence, rationality -- that sort of thing -- that they would willingly choose to place themselves, their families, and countless others at higher risk of cancer, just because? What kind of rational arguments can be made that the most dangerous and toxic form of energy production ever created, which everyone fears and that centralizes control of energy production in the hands of a few, is better than its polar opposites? Small minds, I suppose. Small minds.
A nod to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel who demonstrated outstanding leadership and common sense this week. I'm unfamiliar with any of Merkel's other policies, but this one is nearly jaw-dropping in its rarity, appropriateness, and morality.
America still awaits moral, rational leadership. Perhaps in 2012? (Not bloody likely")
PS.
Update from Japan, as of this morning:
"Japanese officials suspended helicopter flights spraying water over Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant due to high radiation levels"
"In addition, 11 water cannon trucks arrived at the Fukushima Daiichi plant though they were too far from the plant to be effective...
"America's top nuclear official told Congress Wednesday that the pool cooling spent fuel rods at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant had lost most or all of its water, a potentially catastrophic situation."
--ABC News
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