Ten Lessons From Chernobyl And Fukushima
By David Krieger, May 13, 2011
Here are ten lessons from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years ago and the Fukushima disaster this year.
1. Nuclear power is a highly complex, expensive and dangerous way to boil water to create steam to turn turbines.
2. Accidents happen, and the worst-case scenario often turns out to be worse than imagined or planned for.
3. The nuclear industry and its experts cannot plan for every contingency or prevent every disaster.
4. Governments do not effectively regulate the nuclear industry to assure the safety of the public. Regulators of the nuclear industry often come from the nuclear industry itself and tend to be too close to it to regulate it effectively.
http://www.progressive.org/mpkrieger051311.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+progressivefeed+%28The+Progressive+Main+Feed%29Are bullet points considered the same as paragraphs?
This extreme enviroweenie with his biased claptrap does not wish to violate sacrosanct rules. I will post the remaining lessons of the 10 in subsequent posts from this same article.
"...Me, I'm waiting so patiently
Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jig-saw puzzle
Before it rains anymore..."
Jagger/Richards