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Nuclear Power History – theme for January 2016

Lies and violence were the origin of nuclear power.  First of all, in 1942, the work of Dr Charles Pecher, who sought to relieve cancer pain, using radiation -was taken over by the Manhattan Project. The plan now was to devise a radiological weapon that would kill people, but leave property intact. This plan was then changed, in favour of the more dramatic atomic explosions – which were hastily used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki just in time, as the war was ending, with Japan ready to surrender.

The nuclear scientists, for various motives, (in some cases, guilt) now decided to produce the “peaceful atom”.  USA helped 127 Nazi rocket scientists, led by Wernher Von Braun, to move to America, to develop nuclear energy, which would be “too cheap to meter”.

Nuclear energy wasn’t really cheap at all, and required huge government subsidy, and a law to make sure that the tax-payer would pay up for any serious accident, (the Price Anderson Act). USA firms helped other governments to get this “peaceful energy” – and soon all of these countries had nuclear weapons.  That was the main reason they wanted it.

The lies, the cover-ups, the expense, the escalating weaponry, continue to this day. Now the nuclear lobby is engaged in  a lying campaign that depicts renewable energy as “not feasible”, and depicts ionising radiation as “good for you’ at low doses.  It dismisses the radioactive waste problem – ” a solution will be found” (USA’s Waste Confidence Rule).  In UK the latest lie is that super nuclear reactors are ready – to “eat up” the radioactive waste.

January 8, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's themes