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Topping the charts – Opinion news

Topping the charts

SOFIA ECHO  10 Oct 2008 – Elitsa Grancharova – ‘……………

there is nuclear energy. It has always seemed funny when they say that nuclear energy will counteract climate change. Out of the frying pan, into the fire, I say. Yes, naturally, if countries replace their coal-fired thermal power plants with nuclear stations, carbon dioxide emissions will drop, but what will be left? Another unimaginably polluting industry.I recently met someone who had worked at Kozloduy nuclear power plant. He was a defender of nuclear energy and explained that the average “permitted” radiation from Kozloduy was as high as the radiation in Sofia, as Vitosha was a granite mountain. But every day, when you enter Kozloduy, they measure your body’s radiation level and, if it is higher than permitted, they don’t let you in. You will be allowed back in a few days, “during which you have take a lot of showers to decrease the radiation”. (I’ve never heard so much nonsense in my life.) So, if conditions for workers are so “special”, doesn’t that suggest something is wrong? And we have not yet even broached storing nuclear waste. Or nuclear accidents, which pose a real danger in areas of seismic activity, such as Belene, where a nuclear power plant is to be constructed.

Topping the charts – Opinion news

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October 11, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety