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Ignoring or downplaying serious environmental risks of nuclear power does not remove the objective danger

FT 12th Dec 2019, Letter David Lowry: I read your report “EU agrees rule book for green investments” on the newly established EU “taxonomy for sustainable activities” for investment in energy, and found it extraordinary that
nuclear energy has been included under a categorisation that screens
options under a “do no harm principle”, which was pushed for by MEPs.
Do these MEPs and European Commission’s energy directorate officials not
remember the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, which has cost more than
€500bn in clean-up costs and lost land utility in Ukraine, Belarus,
Russia and several western European countries including the UK and Austria?
Do they not recall the more recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe in
2011, which is still radioactively polluting the Pacific Ocean, and would
have bankrupted its owner-operator Tepco if the Japanese government had not stepped in and bailed out the company with taxpayers’ money?
Ignoring or downplaying serious environmental risks of nuclear power — as do the three University of Cambridge academics, along with their Finnish research professor colleague — does not remove the objective danger. It just
misleads elected decision makers.   https://www.ft.com/content/5e05de64-1a99-11ea-9186-7348c2f183af

December 14, 2019 - Posted by | general

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