Entries from February 2008
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Money Is the Real Green Power:
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
By Karl Grossman
Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion.
“With a very few notable exceptions, such as the Los Angeles Times, the U.S.
media have turned the same sort of blind, uncritical eye on the nuclear industry’s claims that led an earlier generation of Americans to believe atomic energy would be too cheap to meter,”…
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Tags: Nuclear Energy
Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #936, December 6, 2007
ATOMIC BALM: NUCLEAR REVIVAL IGNORES CASUALTIES
[Rachel’s introduction: In the U.S., atomic bombs are no longer being tested. However, 104 nuclear power reactors still operate here, producing the same radioactive elements found in bomb test fallout, and people living downwind are routinely exposed to low levels of radioactivity.]
By Joseph J. Mangano
Nuclear power plants employ a controlled atomic fission reaction, splitting uranium atoms to create heat to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine to generate electricity. Because nuclear power is so complex, it is accident-prone and unforgiving…
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Tags: Nuclear Energy
