Saturday, April 26, 2008

Found the Sign

That didn't take too much travelling. The Journey was realtively (I am going to start using this word instead of "relatively" because I think it better expresses what I mean) quick I would say. There is no epiphone here. Just a return to the 2 main points. -NUCLEAR WASTE from past production has not been properly disposed of. Waste is leaking into the Snake River Aquifer and has contaminated large quantities of groundwater outside of Hanford in Eastern Washington state. There should not be new plants until a concerted effort has been made to clean-up this waste, and the integrity of the planned mechanism of waste disposal is deemed environmentally ethical. -NUCLER POWER is Linked to Nuclear Defense. This fact is undeniable. As the rate of proposals for nuclear plants has gone up, so has nuclear defense budgeting. But Please Don't Just Take My Word For It. This is the sign. Did we forget there was a reason we shut down the production of new nuclear power plants for 3 decades? This is a re-marketing campaign. Yes, nuclear power holds tremendous capacity for large scale energy production. But our capacity to deal with the consequences of that potential have not been proven to have caught up. Until then, it behooves us to look at more democratically structured power grid models like the renewables. If we do not prioritize these things they will not realize their potential and the consequences of investing here have far greater benefits than risks. No waste that is. Oh, and windmills are not also used as military weapons.

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