Nuclear Power – Not a Good Option for Avoiding Climate Change

[upstatecajun]

Along with much of the rest of the world, we here at Winning Progressive have been closely following the horrible events in Japan, both in terms of the clean up and rescue operations responding to the earthquakes and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday, and the serious emergency at the Fukushima Daiishi Nuclear Power Station. One good source of keeping up to date on what is happening is this regularly updated post at Mother Jones’ Blue Marble blog.

The nuclear emergency in Japan has reignited the debate over the safety of nuclear power, with critics raising the spectre of a total nuclear meltdown and reminding folks of Chernobyl, while the nuclear industry and its supporters are engaging in a public relations pushback that notes that relatively few people have died from nuclear power over its fifty year life, and claims that Americans should be “reassured” by the emergency at Fukushima because the industry will be able to learn from what went wrong and avoid similar mistakes in the future.

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[Bjorn Against]

1. Anyone who would be "reassured" by this is an idiot

I mean honestly, how could people be stupid enough to buy the argument that we should be reassured that people are being exposed to radioactivity? Sure people may learn something from this, but that does not mean that things won't go wrong in the future.