Dirty. Dangerous. Expensive. Isn’t it time to say goodbye to the failed experiment that is nuclear power?
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More reasons:
- We see that environmental toxins are epidemic and a major factor in disease.
- We can have a green lawn, eat healthy foods, but we can not avoid nuclear radiation.
- Our research has shown that nuclear power and nuclear accidents have contributed much more to cancer, birth defects and other diseases than the powerful nuclear industry wants us to know.
- As proven by the ongoing leak at the “Waste Isolation Project in Carlsbad, N.M., we can not safeguard the radioactive waste for even 50 years, let alone the half a million needed. Therefore we must stop making it.
- We believe that doing nothing about the extra radiation we face from nuclear power plants is immoral; for the sake of future generations, we must switch to renewable energy as fast as possible.
What happened in Japan was the catalyst, but we have been following the off-the-radar effects of supposedly “safe” nuclear power — both normal operation and accidents — for over twenty years. As Rachel Maddow pointed out around April 2, 2011, close calls and relatively small accidents happen quite often. Isn’t it time to cut our losses and demand an end to this dangerous technology?
Besides the health and environmental effects, nuclear power does not even make economic sense. Subsidies, tax incentives, and other financial support to the nuclear industry over the course of the last 50 years amount to more than $500 billion (1). Furthermore, in the U.S. the industry has gotten legislation that limits their liability in any accident to US$12.6 billion (current estimate for Fukishima is US$152 billion). Even without an accident, taxpayers will be paying to deal with the dangerous spent fuel for generations.
We hope Radiation Truth encourages dialogue, provides useful information and raises awareness. Ultimately, we hope to help motivate people to take action and quickly move our country off nuclear power completely, as Scotland (2) and Germany are doing now. Both Denmark and Italy have not built nuclear power plants and have no plans to do so.
“The only nuclear reactor we need is 93 million miles away.”
–Source unknown
(1) Beyond Nuclear
(2) “SNP pledges more help for cities and new green target”, The Scotsman, 14 April 2011.
ich glaube nicht, siecht aus wie fake
I lived near Three Mike Island in Mechanicsburg, Pa from 1973 to 1978 when I enlisted in the USAF. I was stationed at Norton AFB in Southern Ca in Feb, 1978. My parents still lived at 5215 Stuart Drive in Windsor Park until June 1986 when my father died of cancer & my mother died in August 1986. It is a long complicated story about their cancers & deaths. My father refused to leave during TMI & supposedly they were in a “safe” area & they stayed. I was always suspicious & have asked ??s & have been told no, they were safe, it’s impossible. So a while back I found a web page on FaceBook title Windsor Park & I did an informal survey asking if the residents stayed or if they knew of neighbors who stayed & any resulting cancer cases. To me just a regular person the responses I believe 38 & the stories were mind boggling & heart breaking. To be truthful I didn’t know what to do with this data. How did it compare to other neighborhoods? I’m not a statician what do I do with it-who can I give it to? Where can it be used for good? Something needs to be done with it? Can you help me? Can you point me to people who can? You have my permission to go in & look at the data? Also I will be there in Jan probably the 6 or 7 do you know anyone in the TMI area working on this that perhaps I can meet with? Most of the data is thyroid which is what the danger zone area cases were also breast & in young women some closer to TMI but still deemed safe – one gal I know not included in the survey was in Harrisburg stage 3 in breast age 28 (she’s 61 now) with no family history.
I mean I think our govt & officials lied to us & now with the progression of time more cancer deaths are manifesting & many in my informal survey were 2nd generation. I know it’s my problem as far as being in time crunch but please lead & direct ASAP. My directory data is McDonald.sheila256@yahoo.com I am on FB & on IM I hope to hear from u soon! Thank you Sheila McDonald