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A nuclear powered world : Comments
By Peter Gellatly, published 28/9/2007Without early, broadscale adoption of nuclear power, unremitting world energy demand will make a mockery of greenhouse amelioration.
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We know that:
- uranium mining and milling is bad for the workers’ health, the community’s health, and the environment
- the total uranium to nuclear waste cycle causes greenhouse gases
- nuclear power increases weapons proliferation, and terrorism risks
- there is no safe way to dispose of nuclear wastes
- the nuclear industry is surrounded with secrecy, suspicion and the erosion of civil liberties
- the whole thing is so bloody expensive that it’s a joke (France’s much-touted nuclear power has huge debt and is propped up, indeed run, by the tax-payer)
But – given all that, let us applaud Mr Gellatly for giving us some factual technical stuff to show that the implementation of the famous GNEP is fraught with problems and security risks.
We sure do need such informed comment.
My own opinion is that the GNEP is just one great con job for a desperate nuclear industry which is about to experience a still-birth.
Christina Macpherson www.antinuclearaustralia.com