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Corporate disinformation on nuclear power

The World Health Organisation and nuclear power, Le Monde Diplomatique
Chernobyl: the great cover-up“……Stronger than the tobacco lobby For decades the tobacco, agrochemical and petrochemical lobbies have obstructed implementation of public
health and environmental measures that might interfere with their profits.

But the nuclear lobby is incomparably more powerful than any of these as it comprises governments of nuclear states, most significantly, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, and powerful intergovernmental organisations. The disinformation emanating
from industrial and military lobbies is overwhelming – and dangerously, it carries state authority.

Furthermore, the corruption of science also concerns our most
prestigious academic institutions which, as an editorial in The Lancet
reported, “have become businesses in their own right, seeking to
commercialise for themselves research discoveries rather than preserve
their independent scholarly status” (10). Peer-reviewed studies, cited
as evidence of the safety of nuclear activities, all too often emanate
from, or are financed by, the nuclear lobby.

Corporate science, through denial, cover-ups and lies, has brought us
to the brink of self-destruction in relation to global warming. So how
can we contemplate trusting corporate science in relation to nuclear
power? While the emissions responsible for climate change are amenable
to control (in theory), nuclear technology and its waste products are
not, and its consequences, even if nuclear activities ceased tomorrow,
will affect life on earth for millennia.

The “science” that has informed the nuclear debate in general, and the
Chernobyl catastrophe in particular, is corporate science in which the
industry is judge and jury in relation to the health consequences of
its own activities. The entire edifice of nuclear institutions,
governmental, regulatory, military, industrial, scientific, research
and intergovernmental, including Euratom and some UN agencies, is one
incestuous happy family ……..
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September 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general