The No Nukes Comeback
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The No Nukes Comeback Posted on Apr 15 2008 at 11:43pm by Its amazing that really nothing has changed since I first started opposing this bad idea almost 35 years ago. They still don't have any good plan for the disposal of the deadly and long lived waste, there are constant near misses and near catastrophes, and there is still the threat of nuclear weapons being created around the world from nuclear power. India created its first bomb from a commercial facility. What HAS changed is Chernobyl, and I am glad this film reminded the world of that horror and the unacceptible risks associated with nuclear power. Here in my home state of South Carolina where nuclear has replaced cotton as King, there is another kind of surge taking place. . .the rush to license and get preconstruction costs for a bevy of new plants. . .some with price tags topping $8 billion. The utilities just can't think outside the baseload box, and with coal getting a bad rap, they are rapidly shifting their eggs to the nuclear basket, energy efficiency, conservation and renewables be dammed. And with GNEP and reprocessing just an administration away, we could be looking at the spectre of a plutonium economy, the greatest front for a police state ever imagined. What kind of Big Brother world will we live in surrounded by nuclear bomb materials as our main energy source? It was sheer madness in the last century, and it has no place in a green, democratice, sustainable future. 
RE: The No Nukes Comeback Posted on Oct 10 2008 at 10:50pm by not exactly.
