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Former official of Nuclear Regulatory Commission urges an end to subsidising nuclear power

Security should come first…At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”

The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, “……..Physicist Victor Gilinsky, previously with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Atomic Energy Commission, noted in the January 2009 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:”In international affairs, nuclear energy trumps just about everything. Even so-called arms controllers fall over themselves trying to establish their bona fides by supporting nuclear energy development and devising painless proposals that grandfather everything that’s already in place. … It’s time to take a more serious view. Security should come first — not as an afterthought.”We should support as much nuclear power as is consistent with international security; not as much security as the spread of nuclear power will allow. At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom | newmatilda.com

April 20, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, safety | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, reactors