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Registered: Jan 30, 2006
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    July 11, 2006 at 09:16 AM
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Who would have thought it? Nuclear as a planet saving source of energy?

 

In my mind this does not compute. The 000s years needed for the waste to decay, the millions needed to clean up Chernobyl.... Nuclear energy might save us but at what cost?

 

From the Beeb...

 

Tom Burke, a visiting professor of environmental policy at Imperial College and University College London, and a nuclear sceptic, said: "In the real world, if people invest in nuclear, they are not going to invest in renewables."

 

So what will happen to the "lower carbon" lifestyle ?

 

 


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Registered: April 21, 2006
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    July 11, 2006 at 03:01 PM
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NUCLEAR POWER – WE HAD IT COMING!

 

No matter how seriously you may consider the UK Government’s proposals for stepping up nuclear power generation we have little alternative if mankind is going to survive the acute predicament in which we now find ourselves.

 

On the general scheme of things global warming has already overstepped one of our planet’s crucial tipping points so we are well on the way on a hiding to nothing!

 

The most we can do now is to pad our pants as best we canto make the pain a little less severe  and, perhaps,  a little more bearable as climate change tightens around us.

 

The experts are right, renewable energy can only scratch the surface of our global predicament. Whereas, nuclear power has all the ingredients to help encourage a better future for generations to come.

 

Of course it has it dangers but we’ve just got to make sure they as minimal as possible  - surely it’s not beyond the wit of man to do that.

 

Today’s generation and past generations  have made such a mess of our planet’s delicate ecology  systems that there really is no going back. Like anyone suffering a terminal illness we can only do the best we can in the time that’s available!

 

If we’re all consumed by some nasty nuclear disaster, then we had it coming!  We must blame our own selfishness for the eventual outcome, simply because the vast majority of people are not prepared  “to do their bit!”

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