Today I do not want you to listen to my reasoning as to why Nuclear is the only practical solution to our problems. Instead I would ask you to read the following quote from one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived.
Then I would ask you to look at the people who have previously advised you to be against Nuclear.
Look at them closely. What are their skills? Where is their expertise?
How good are they actually as scientists? How many papers have they published in leading journals?
How do they compare with the likes of pro-nuclear scientists like Hansen, Lovelock, Wigley and Allinson?
Anyway, here's the quote:
Dr James Hansen writes:
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The public is unaware of pressure put on scientists to be silent about nuclear power.
After I mention nuclear power I receive numerous messages, often heart-breaking in their sincerity as they repeat Caldicott like unfounded assertions and beg me not to mention nuclear power.
More disconcerting is the pressure from environmental organizations and the liberal media. Each large environmental organization has a nuclear “expert” (often a lawyer, not a physicist) with a well-developed script to respond to any positive statement about nuclear power.
Liberal media follow precisely the “merchants of doubt” approach that the right-wing media use to block action on climate change; raising fears about nuclear power is enough to stymie support. The liberal media employ not only environmental organization “experts”, but former heads of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) appointed during Democratic Administrations.
These NRC talking heads are well-spoken professionals with a spiel that has been honed over years. And they have a track record. The NRC, despite its many dedicated capable employees, has been converted from the top into a lawyer-laden organization that can take many months or years to approve even simple adjustments to plans.
It is almost impossible to build a nuclear power plant in the United States in less than 10 years, and this is not because an American worker cannot lay one brick on top of another as fast as a Chinese worker. Anti-nukes know that the best way to kill nuclear power is to make it more expensive.
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Those are the exact words of one of the worlds leading scientists. the full text of his statement is Here (the above extract, fully in context, is on page 15.)
Now, ask yourself this: Who is telling the truth?
The world leading scientist and his many peer level colleagues?
Or the propaganda department from Greenpeace?
2 comments:
If we spent half as much on researching fusion power as we've already pissed up the wall on bird mincers, we wouldn't have an energy 'crisis'
We waste billions on marginal or sub-marginal energy generation schemes.
As well as fusion (which is of course the Holy Grail and deserves much more focus)there are more immediately available technologies like LFTR reactors or FBRs (that actually consume nuclear waste!) that get NO funding.
We can continue pissing about with useless IWT's while lining the pockets of rich and well connected land owners. Or we can do something that actually works.
Just don't hold your breath waiting for the politico's to make a rational decision.
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