15 March 2011

Are nukes still necessary?

I was in college in central Pennsylvania, about 100 miles from the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, when the meltdown happened there in 1979.

Seven years later, in 1986, we saw something far worse happen at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Today we're watching and wondering what the environmental and health consequences will be of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan that has affected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant there.

When these things happen, the power industry tends to dismiss them as isolated incidents. But they are unnecessary incidents. Wouldn't now be a good time to move away from nuclear energy development and instead invest in safe alternatives like wind and solar? How many more disasters like this have to happen? (Sadly, these are rhetorical questions.)

ValleyWatch.net: Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Power

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