Antinuclear

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at COP 28. – let’s call it what it really is – a nuclear marketing company.

 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi was  at a COP28 event on 1 December 2023 in Dubai. He kicked off the nuke lobby push  the IAEA Statement on Nuclear Power as a climate solution .

This slimy, silver-tongued propagandist is adept at couching the nuclear push in mealy-mouthed weasel words that are blandly acceptable to the public. The mantra will be “making use of all low-carbon energy sources”. The theme will be nuclear-not as the major star of climate action, but “part of the energy mix”, – and of course – requiring tax-payer funding.

You’ve got to hand it to Grossi – a master at deceptive language . He will cover himself, mouthing some concerns about proliferation, about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, but his essential message is that nuclear is safe, clean, and deserves government funding. He minimises nuclear power’s history of accidents.

This UN agency wields huge influence internationally. It was set up – post the Hiroshima bombing, to make the nuclear industry look good.

At the climate summit The UK and USA governments eagerly jumped on the bandwagon, pushing for a tripling of nuclear power by 2050. Another 20 governments joined the push, but 179 other governments did not.

The sad reality is – that Mr Grossi and all these currently powerful politicians do not know how to cope with the obscene costs and horror of scrapping the world’s old toxic crumbling nuclear facilities . So forf thdem, their best option is to push on with the nuclear madness.

After all, they’ll soon retire on their fat superannuations, and leave the next generation with this horrible problem in a heated world.

December 9, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized