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Contaminated Cook

Koch advocates for a longer operating period for the "most unsafe" nuclear power plant:

The Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch, on the other hand, spoke out in favor of an extension of the operating period. It is in the interest of the state to keep the power plant in operation for as long as possible, especially if the operator RWE is willing to upgrade the reactor, said the CDU politician in the state parliament.

What, this thing is one of the most failure-prone and unsafe power plants in Germany? What, the power plant has repeatedly been involved in incidents and the operator has repeatedly been involved in attempting to cover up these incidents? But of course, we simply believe the operator when he says he is upgrading and securing the power plant. Just as we believe him when he says that the whole increase in electricity prices is not simply intended to increase his profit at the expense of the citizens.

Bush and Nuclear Power

Bush calls for increased use of nuclear power:

"Our plan is to increase the use of safer and cleaner nuclear energy," said Bush, who a few weeks ago called for a reduction in oil dependence. The development and use of new technologies for solar and wind energy are also to be intensified.

But the fact that the raw material uranium is also limited, meaning that it is not a real alternative to oil at all, and that the issue of the final disposal of nuclear waste is not solved at all in the case of nuclear power, all this does not interest him at all.

The patent solution of the complete idiots - instead of relying on oil as a slowly depleting raw material, one chooses another depleting raw material that is much more dangerous and dirtier. Great strategy.

Of course, he also doesn't care that he just had his crisis with Iran because the nuclear program there may not be used solely for power generation. And that in the USA, for good reasons (costs and dangers), nuclear power has not been actively promoted and expanded since the 70s.

The actually more obvious vision for the future - the increased use of renewable energy sources - is once again completely ignored. It would be too simple if one were to address the problem of non-renewable energy sources, namely the non-renewability ...

But Nuclear Power is Soooo Safe

Highly radioactive liquid leaked in Sellafield - but of course, all supporters keep insisting that such problems could never happen here in the West. No, we don't have major accidents, no near-catastrophes, and no unnoticed or covered-up incidents. Allegedly, everything is great here. Now, the supporters will certainly find countless reasons why what happened in Sellafield cannot be generalized and why it wouldn't happen in Germany because our facilities are so great - presumably, the English told themselves the same thing.

Sorry, but there are a few absolutely generalizable problem areas with nuclear power:

• Safe disposal of waste is not guaranteed
• The consequences of accidents are - due to the substances involved - much more problematic than with conventional power plants
• Economic viability is by no means given

But when there's a shift to black/yellow, it will be said again that only with nuclear power can emission values be met and that everything is so incredibly safe and that we never had and will never have a major accident because everything is much better here than elsewhere.

Exactly the same bullshit that the supporters in England probably also told about Sellafield ...