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Three Mile Island and Chernobyl |
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Nuclear Power is not safe, it is not clean, it is not economical |
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Prince Albert - Thursday - December 9, 2004 - by: Mario deSantis | |||||||
Albert Einstein |
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Lyubov Sirota, Chernobyl’s disaster victim. |
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I have leaned in the course of my life that a discussion
on any issue, void of dialogue, is a futile exercise. When parties of a discussion
don’t learn from each other they fall into the so called trap "I
say, s/he says." I have read the article
"Nuclear energy unsafe alternative to fossil fuels"[1] in which the author, Paul Hantley, expresses his concerns
on the cleanliness, safety, and economics of nuclear power. I have also read the
rebuttal of Hantley’s assertions as recently expressed by Kent Smith-Windsor,
director of the Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce.[2]
Nuclear power is not clean, the truth is that carbon
dioxide (CO2) is emitted at each step of the nuclear fuel chain, from
uranium mining, milling, enrichment, fuel fabrication, construction of the reactor,
transportation and storage of radioactive waste, and decommissioning of old reactors.
At each step of the nuclear fuel chain, we have the producing of radioactive material
that contaminate ground water, air, plants, equipment for a duration of hundreds
of thousands of years.[9]
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Hantley, Paul Nuclear energy unsafe alternative to fossil fuels November 30, 2004 The StarPhoenix | |||||||
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Smith-Windsor, Kent Industry debased by fear mongering December 7, 2004 The StarPhoenix | |||||||
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Environmental Advocates (NIRS) Environmentalists
oppose Bush-Cheney plan to revitalize nuclear power industry http://www.n-base.org.uk/public/report_links/oppose_bush.html |
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Virtual Guide to Belarus Facts
About Chernobyl Disaster. Links to information on Chernobyl disaster http://www.belarusguide.com/chernobyl1/chfacts.htm |
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BS Three Mile Island: What
Happened http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/sfeature/ |
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Union of Concerned Scientists Davis-Besse:
The Reactor with a Hole in its Head http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/nuclear_safety/page.cfm?pageID=790 |
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Wikipedia List
of nuclear accidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_accidents |
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Boyd, Alan Asia's
ticking nuclear time-bomb November 16, 2004 Asia Times http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/NewsArticle.cfm?NewsID=1962 |
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Lai, Leslie and Kristen Morrison NUCLEAR
ENERGY FACT SHEET Waging Peace http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-energy-&-waste/start/fact-sheet_ne&w.htm |
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Grossman, Karl The Nuclear Phoenix:
The Bush Administration is Pushing Ahead with a Full-Scale Revival of Atomic Power
E MAGAZINE.COM http://www.emagazine.com/view/?901 |
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Green Scissors Nuclear
Bailout Price-Anderson Act: $n/a (pdf) http://www.citizen.org/documents/nuke2010analysis.pdf |
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Public Citizen Nuclear
Power 2010 Unveiled: Bush plan for new nuclear reactors maps out monstrous subsidies
(pdf) March 2004 http://www.citizen.org/documents/nuke2010analysis.pdf |
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