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We Owe It To Ourselves To Abandon Nuclear Energy

We owe it to ourselves to abandon nuclear energy

The Herald Peter Curran 23 Feb 09 “……………Every advocate of civil nuclear power generation I have read, heard or met personally is either an advocate of nuclear weapons, nuclear defence policies and the so-called “nuclear deterrent”, or, frankly, must be naive, and unaware or badly informed about this insidious linking of the civil and military aspects.

Any country that has nuclear power has the undeniable potential to make nuclear weapons. This is why the west is making such a fuss over Iran’s nuclear programme. It was also the ostensible reason for invading Iraq. The UK is a massive exporter of nuclear technology and uranium enrichment processes, and this is at the core of nuclear weapons production. If the UK abandoned this deadly trade and never built another nuclear power station, it would be taking a major step towards reducing international tension, nuclear proliferation and creating a safer planet.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is charged with investigating the regular, and sinister, transfer of nuclear material between civil and military stockpiles, but its powers are limited, and, by the UK government’s own admission, its acceptance of inspection was not intended to provide an assurance that such material would not be used for defence purposes……………………..The nuclear power industry and the nuclear arms industry are conjoined twins, locked forever in a deadly embrace, and cannot be separated. You can’t have one without the other. Until homo sapiens evolves into a greater maturity, the world can afford neither nuclear power generation nor nuclear arms. We owe it to ourselves, our children and our grandchildren to reject these deadly twins.

We Owe It To Ourselves To Abandon Nuclear Energy (from The Herald )

February 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war