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That obsoltee, expensive, dangerous technology – nuclear power

Nuclear power: stuck in the past in more ways than one Greenpeace,  by Justin McKeating – November 8, 2012 “….. The nuclear industry continually claims the developing world needs nuclear reactors to be able to realise their potential.

We’re told nuclear power is a magic bullet for the creation of jobs and growth. This amounts to little more than propaganda as part of the sales pitch to build new reactors. Nuclear companies bring their own workers and keep the profits.

Look at Bulgaria where Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese workers were imported to work on nuclear projects there. Look at Niger that fulfils 40% of France’s uranium demands and yet languishes at the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index  which measures life expectancy, education, and incomes.

We’re told that nuclear power will provide “energy security”  and independency to those countries adopting it. But here we see starkly how that is a lie – countries buying nuclear reactors are dependent on a handful of

suppliers and countries who control the technology as well as the nuclear fuel supply.

Nuclear power is an old technology – its fundamental principles have hardly evolved since the 1950s. It looks like much the same could be said for some of its supporter’s views about nuclear power’s potential “customers”. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/nuclear-power-stuck-in-the-past-in-more-ways-/blog/42921/

November 9, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general