Nuclear Power? 8 Questions Need to Be Answered
Rising greenhouse gases. Climate change. Rising energy costs. Declining fossil fuel reserves. Now the BP disaster. With the arguments against fossil fuels continuing to pile up it’s no wonder people have latched onto nuclear power as an attractive solution. Here are eight questions that we should answer before, not after, we head down the nuclear [...]
Everything you wanted to know about nukes but were afraid to ask
Anti-Nuke Fact Sheets Galore Nukes and Climate Change Radioactive Waste Radiation Alternatives And much more! See http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/fctsht.htm.
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Apocalypse Now and Next: From Gulf Spill to Nuke Disaster We just ignited a disaster beyond our technical control. Why are we on the brink of doing it again? Like Deepwater Horizon and Fermi, these new nukes could ignite disasters beyond our technological control—and our worst nightmares. Like BP, their builders would enjoy financial liability [...]
Nuclear Power and Public Health: the full story on the health effects of nuclear energy
The public health implications for a resurgence of nuclear power appear to have taken a subordinate position to the economic and global warming arguments that the industry has advanced to justify its expansion. The purpose of this essay therefore is several-fold: to review the scientific evidence for public health impacts of nuclear power, to assess [...]
Impacts of dangerous new radioactive waste unassessed: Greenpeace report
The isolation period for waste from new generation reactors will increase to 2.3 million years from one million years before radioactivity approaches that of natural uranium. See http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Impacts-of-dangerous-new-radioactive-waste-unassessed-Greenpeace-report/.
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