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Ernest Moniz and the heavily subsidised nuclear industry silent about ongoing disaster of Fukushima

Nuclear Diplomacy: the Great Charade, The Humiliation of Iran CounterPunch,by CARL BOGGS, 4 Feb 14 “……..A recent Foreign Affairs article (by Ernest Moniz ,USA Energy Secretary, pictured at left  ) captures the mainstream Western obsession with the nuclear enterprise, under the heading “Why We Still Need Nuclear Power”.  The predictably clear-cut answer: to fight the perils of climate change.

This same message was focus of a 2013 CNN documentary, Pandora’s Promise, in which critics of nuclear power like HelenCaldicott and Ralph Nader are depicted as marginal, out-of-touch crazies.  Paradoxically, some proponents of nuclear energy argue that Iran should abandon its (irrational) nuclear hopes and generate more electricity from its massive reserves of fossil fuels.   The Iranians, for their part, proclaim an understandable desire for more diversified sources of electricity in a society that has seen energy consumption grow six times over the past two decades.

When it comes to Fukushima, Obama and other elites – falling in line with the extremely profitable (and highly-subsidized) nuclear industry – have been mostly silent about the catastrophe and its repercussions for future atomic-energy projects.  While nuclear reactors currently provide less than ten percent of electricity worldwide, the realistic industry hope is for a doubling or even tripling of that level within the next decade……..http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/04/nuclear-diplomacy-the-great-charade/

CARL BOGGS is author of The Crimes of Empire (Pluto) and Ecology and Revolution (Macmillan), among his most recent books.

February 5, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized