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TODAY. Ethics, intelligence, literature, and nuclear reprocessing

What on Earth has literature got to do with nuclear power? Well, nothing, really, I suppose.

And yet…….

An article today, about nuclear reprocessing, brought to mind the dilemma for Shakespeare’s Macbeth as he continues on the path to his doom.

Macbeth decides to go on, though he knows it is hopeless:

“I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er“

He decides to just keep doing the same thing, rather than to stop, and think about alternatives:

 ” Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.”

“They have invested too much money in the program to give up on it halfway“

That’s the reason why the Japanese government will continue with this $97 billion massive white elephant of the Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant.

Even if the reprocessing plant is completed, it can treat only 800 tons of spent nuclear fuel annually at full capacity, compared with 19,250 tons of spent fuel stored nationwide.

Calls have grown over the years to abandon the nuclear fuel cycle project. – The Asahi Shimbun.

What has intelligence got to do with it? Well, meaning common sense, (rather than spying) – it would be intelligent to stop this futile project, and take some different actions, such as stopping making this toxic trash.

Finally – what has ethics got to do with this?

Well, everything. The Japanese government won’t face up to the truth. Neither will world leaders. It’s all too hard – leave it to our great-grandchildren to deal with the radioactive trash, and all the environmental, social, and weapons-and war-dangers of this noxious industry.

April 3, 2024 - Posted by | Christina's notes

1 Comment »

  1. Most evil thing possible. Chemically play with the most dangerous, toxic radioactive death poisons in the universe with effluents going into sewers oceans rivers. The shit is so potently evil it cannot be isolated. The most radioactive hilevel radionuclides possible. Deadly and hateful to billionths and trillionths of a gram.In the air. On workers .In the water. Instant cancer and death. Instant birth defects for 7 generations till a line is gone. Cs137 1132 co60 plotonium how could any human monsters be so hideously evil?

    Jdh3's avatar Comment by Jdh3 | April 3, 2024 | Reply


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