1. More than €600 million pledged by 28 donor governments with $507 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to encase the nuclear reactor as the present concrete shell has deteriorated
2. Two killed in the initial explosion, 28 of radiation sickness, 1 of cardiac arrest within 3 months,
3.9,300 people dying from radiation cancers (UN health agency; Greenpeace says more)
4. 200,000 evacuated, some of Europe's most fertile farmland ruined by radioactive fallout
US (2007)
1. Radioactive polonium-210 in 25 Fallon (Nevada)-area drinking water wells
2. Dumping of milk from dairy cows since their system concentrates the polonium 210 in the milk
3. 17 children in the Fallon area suspected of contracting leukemia (since 1997) with three deaths. Odds were 232 million to one that the disease was contracted by means other than groundwater contamination.
It appears that burial of radioactive wastes in the Nevada is not going to work out in the long run. Nuclear energy was touted to be a source of "free" energy in the 1950's. Unfortunately, the side effects were not known then. Yes, ignorance was bliss.
Let us not be caught in believing that the way out of our energy concerns today is the building of more nuclear plants. The contamination of our wells is only a hint of what lies ahead unless we find a safer way to dispose of the thousands of tons of nuclear wastes already generated and seeking a 1,000 year home.
Let the nuclear industry be honest with itself when it stands up to ask the government for guaranteed loans in the tens of billions for new nuclear plants. Equal sums may also be needed to repair, maintain, restore or to bury the numerous facilities already approaching the end of their life cycles.
What will the nuclear industry say about changing contaminated water back into good water? Is this another case for Ervin Brockowitch? Can the nuclear industry be sued for producing and permitting radioactive contaminates to enter our water tables? Can the government be held liable for the spread of leukemia that has already resulted? Is this discovery just the tip of the detrimental iceberg that is sure to spring from its buried bonds in the next few centuries and hangs above us as the blade of a guillotine
Are we so blind as to be permanently ensnared in this nuclear web of maddness? I hope not!
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Submitted on August 8th, 2007 by InterestedReaderNuclear reactor true costs:
Chernobyl (1986-2007):
1. More than €600 million pledged by 28 donor governments with $507 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to encase the nuclear reactor as the present concrete shell has deteriorated
2. Two killed in the initial explosion, 28 of radiation sickness, 1 of cardiac arrest within 3 months,
3.9,300 people dying from radiation cancers (UN health agency; Greenpeace says more)
4. 200,000 evacuated, some of Europe's most fertile farmland ruined by radioactive fallout
US (2007)
1. Radioactive polonium-210 in 25 Fallon (Nevada)-area drinking water wells
2. Dumping of milk from dairy cows since their system concentrates the polonium 210 in the milk
3. 17 children in the Fallon area suspected of contracting leukemia (since 1997) with three deaths. Odds were 232 million to one that the disease was contracted by means other than groundwater contamination.
It appears that burial of radioactive wastes in the Nevada is not going to work out in the long run. Nuclear energy was touted to be a source of "free" energy in the 1950's. Unfortunately, the side effects were not known then. Yes, ignorance was bliss.
Let us not be caught in believing that the way out of our energy concerns today is the building of more nuclear plants. The contamination of our wells is only a hint of what lies ahead unless we find a safer way to dispose of the thousands of tons of nuclear wastes already generated and seeking a 1,000 year home.
Let the nuclear industry be honest with itself when it stands up to ask the government for guaranteed loans in the tens of billions for new nuclear plants. Equal sums may also be needed to repair, maintain, restore or to bury the numerous facilities already approaching the end of their life cycles.
What will the nuclear industry say about changing contaminated water back into good water? Is this another case for Ervin Brockowitch? Can the nuclear industry be sued for producing and permitting radioactive contaminates to enter our water tables? Can the government be held liable for the spread of leukemia that has already resulted? Is this discovery just the tip of the detrimental iceberg that is sure to spring from its buried bonds in the next few centuries and hangs above us as the blade of a guillotine
Are we so blind as to be permanently ensnared in this nuclear web of maddness? I hope not!
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