No doubt it took you some time to erect that strawman there, as I do not know of any "anti-nukers," that would defend oil, but why don't you get together with that pro-nuker that displays the coal sign with line through it. Seems like two peas in a nuclear pod to me. Kind of reminded me of that rabid right wing diatribe against the judge in Wisconsin. You guys are really earning your money on the boards, bouncing from one thread to the next, fuck the facts, load the insults and innuendo, hoist the hyperbole, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead...
As for straight up anti-nukers, here are/were some everyday folk and what they feel about it:
Dirty Fucking Hippies WERE RIGHT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veyi-0FH67kMerkel Loses Key German State on Nuclear Fears
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats on Sunday suffered a major defeat in a historic stronghold in southwestern Germany, where the Green Party appeared poised to head a state government for the first time, according to official preliminary results.
The nuclear calamity in Japan and Mrs. Merkel’s subsequent reversal on nuclear power played a key role in the elections in the southwest state of Baden-Württemberg, where the Christian Democrats have governed since 1953, before Mrs. Merkel, 56, was born.
Most Germans have a deep-seated aversion to nuclear power, and the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan has galvanized opposition. On Saturday, more than 200,000 people took to the streets of four big German cities to protest nuclear power. The news from Japan of soaring radiation levels led the major radio and television newscasts on Sunday.
After the catastrophe in Japan, Mrs. Merkel reversed a pro-nuclear policy that she adopted just last year and temporarily shut down seven of Germany’s 17 nuclear plants. She apparently did not convince voters that her change of policy was sincere. ..
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/world/europe/28germany.htmlContributed by DU poster FourScore:
In the book Chernobyl: Insight From the Inside by Vladimir Chernousenko. Chernousenko was the leading nuclear physicist in the USSR when Chernobyl blew. He was in charge of the clean up. He is dead now, of course, but he wrote this book before he died. In it, he explains how he had always been an advocate of nuclear energy until Chernobyl happened. It was then that he came to the painful realization that all the safety measures were only theoretical. The robots that were supposed to replace humans in a high radiation zone were clumsy and couldn't maneuver well. Eventually they failed to operate altogether due to the fact that high radiation destroys electronics. Nobody had thought about that! Can you imagine? Let me say this again...They made these robots to go into high radiation zones instead of humans, but they DIDN'T WORK because high radiation KILLS electronics...How dumb was that??? Everyone has been talking about robots going in, but has anyone bothered to ask why they haven't used them yet? 'Cuz there's a reason. Also, have you seen the pictures of the devastation? The robots can't move around in it. Explosions have occurred and there is heavy debris all over the place. That was another problem at Chernobyl. They couldn't move around it. And finally, robots can't physically move the way humans can. They can't climb utility poles one minute and crawl through tunnels the next. So, the robots idea was THEORY -- IT DIDN'T WORK. It didn't work then, it wouldn't work now. And that's just one example of how the theory broke down in a real life scenario.
He said, at Chernobyl the situation was even worse because of the lack of free press in the Soviet Union. However, he describes how he and the head of the IAEA flew over the exploded reactor in a helicopter to observe the damage, and then the head of the IAEA stood in front of the world press at a press conference and said that the situation looked manageable. Chernousenko could not believe it! He said it is the industry norm to deny and obfuscate.
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