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Left behind on energy issue

Left behind on energy issue
thestar.com Malaysia

NMA,
Kajang.

I REFER to the ongoing debate on nuclear energy. So far, not a single pro-nuclear advocate has told me what they will do with the nuclear waste, except one letter claiming that there will be zero.This is obviously false because it’s common knowledge that nuclear waste is the number one issue preventing most European countries from adding more nuclear reactors in their country, or even replacing their ageing reactors. So, until the authorities can explain what they plan to do with the waste, and that the action taken will be viable and responsible, I will be against nuclear energy……………………..I disagree that renewables are too expensive to be viable; that was the view 10 years ago. Now even a Texas oilman is building a huge solar power plant in an American desert, Australia is piloting a project extracting energy from underground hot rocks and China is now the builder of the most wind farms and solar plants in the world and is still building more and faster.

Left behind on energy issue

Tags: nuclear, antinuclear, radioactive, uranium, renewables

November 5, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY