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Climate change and nuclear power – a lethal mix?

The mix of extreme climate changes around the planet plus nuclear weapons, nuclear waste and nuclear power could very easily be a lethal mix.

Fires and floods, We need more information from governments about nuclear power, By Judith Mohling e Colorado Daily 07/07/2011 , Aweek ago, 700 miles apart, evacuations of heavily populated areas took place as people moved to safety from possible nuclear disasters — two flooded nuclear power plants in Nebraska, Fort Calhoun and Cooper, and a raging wildfire near the nuclear lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

………….Today, the dangers to the Los Alamos labs and the flooded nuclear power plants have subsided and many people have been able to sleep in their own beds again. ……..

As climate change worsens, extreme, yet unpredictable weather may befall the earth. Tinder-dry conditions currently exist in Arizona and New Mexico, both battling the largest wildfires in their histories. Many forests and grasslands are parched. In some areas there has been complete destruction of ecosystems and deaths of countless wildlife. Yet, extreme snowfall, melting and runoff in Montana, for example, create flood conditions along the mighty Missouri and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries.

The mix of extreme climate changes around the planet plus nuclear weapons, nuclear waste and nuclear power could very easily be a lethal mix. Add to that a subtle yet extremely powerful factor — government secrecy and hesitance to reveal the full truth about anything nuclear, not only in the US, but in all the nuclear countries or the nuclear — wannabe countries — and you’ve got disasters waiting to happen.

What to do? Demand open, transparent sharing of information from government entities. My bet is that as the situations worsen, true democratic processes and full education of the populations of the world about the problems that humans in their blind arrogance have created, will be the only thing that will save us. We all need to be part of the solutions.

:http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_18433667?source=most_viewed#ixzz1RX8zJI4Y

July 8, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general