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Nuclear lobby trying to sell a technological corpse

when you hear some hired gun selling nukes, remember: even $645 million can only buy so much green lipstick for a dead radioactive pig.

Harvey Wasserman: $600 Million Lipstick for a Dead Radioactive Pig, 23 Feb 2010 “……In the face of that $645 million cash tsunami, grassroots activists still stopped $50 billion in loan guarantees three times since 2007. No new US reactor construction has started since the 1970s, when public opinion was over 70% in favor of atomic power, and Richard Nixon promised 1000 US reactors by the year 2000.
With green jobs advocate Van Jones ditched and Obama now openly in the nuclear camp, atomic energy is still a loser.
It can’t solve its waste problems, can’t operate without leaking radiation, can’t pay for itself and can’t get private insurance against terror or error. Once hyped as “too cheap to meter,” Warren Buffett, the National Taxpayers Union, the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute are among those joining the Congressional Budget Office in warning that atomic energy is really “too expensive to matter.”

The reactor backers will respond with all the hundreds of millions they think they need. But they’re still selling a technological corpse. With licensing and construction and the inevitable unforeseen, not one new US reactor can come on line in less than seven years.At lot can happen between now and then. Most importantly, renewable/efficiency prices will continue to plummet. And grassroots opposition will not stop. As Abe Lincoln reminds us: you can’t buy all the people all the time, and the ones that can’t be bought, can be damn powerful……….

So when you hear some hired gun selling nukes, remember: even $645 million can only buy so much green lipstick for a dead radioactive pig.

And when Nature bats last, the final score is not about cash.

Harvey Wasserman: $600 Million Lipstick for a Dead Radioactive Pig

February 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin