Antinuclear

Exposing the crookedness of the nuclear industry

This week, revelations of Japan’s rigged public opinion forums highlight the labyrinth of deceit that is the nuclear industry’s pitch to the world’s public.

As Senator Scott Ludlam says it would be “extreme optimism” to think that this nuclear crookedness occurs only in Japan.

No, the deceit is world-wide.  Three examples pop up in today’s news items:

1 The nuclear hype that there is  safe disposal for nuclear waste.  In fact, the world has  only one long term nuclear waste disposal project  – in Finland – and that one is inadequate and unsafe. The nuclear lobby touts that the waste problem is solved.

2. Also Finland – Olkiluoto nuclear power plants. The new “Generation IV” plant – still unfinished, way over budget, and the operating plants considered not safe.   Yet then nuclear lobby continues to tout “new nuclear” as safe and affordable.

3. For Australia – the most interesting lie of all –  that uranium has a great future.  You will see this on any web search about uranium investing –  “the fundamentals” are there the “long term prospects ” are sound. the industry’s future is “robust”.    

Nonsense!  The uranium industry is collapsing. BHP Billiton probably knows this.  But keeps up the pretense, because they think it would be too much trouble for them to export only the copper from their monster mine at Olympic Dam. The others, Paladin, Cameco, – the rest of them – desperately trying to get money invested so they can keep going.

The most serious deception by the nuclear industry is in the way that it manages the issue of  “low level radiation” –  by omission, by half-truths and lies about low level radiation being “harmless” even “benign”

October 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews