Posted on 03/13/2011 4:54:10 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nuclear power is always unsafe, says Greenpeace
* From: AAP * March 14, 2011 10:22AM
ENVIRONMENTALISTS say the possibly catastrophic failure of a Japanese nuclear reactor shows that nuclear power can never be safe.
Two reactors at the Fukushima plant in north-eastern Japan have been damaged by the devastating earthquake which struck nearby on Friday, and at least one is in danger of meltdown.
Radiation has been released into the air after an explosion at one reactor, and although authorities have said it is not intense enough to affect human health, they have ordered evacuations of people living within 20km.
"This proves once and for all that nuclear power cannot ever be safe," Greenpeace campaigns head Steve Campbell said today.
"Japan's nuclear plants were built with the latest technology, specifically to withstand natural disasters, yet we still face potential meltdown," he said in a statement.
Greenpeace was also concerned about the lack of information about the total amount of radiation already released, and whether the ponds for spent radioactive fuel - outside the containment area of the reactor - were secure.
"We request that Japan's government share this information with the public immediately," he said.
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What you said.
But coal power melts the polar bears!
In my estimation, Greenpeace (a vile anarchist outfit) poses a far greater danger to our country than any nuclear plant. We’d be a poverty-stricken, third world cesspool if Greenpeace had their way. And that’s likely just what they want.
It’s “unsafe” because idiots like Greenpeace manage to squeeze excessive regulations out of governments that force us to use old technology. New technology is safer, far more efficient and can operate on far smaller amounts of nuclear material.
The answer is more nuclear plants.
so are candles and campfires, you Luddite hippies!
Windpower and solar power are hazardous to animals too.
What’s orange and looks good on a hippie?
Fire.
This is the first phrase the Greenpeace maggots are taught to regurgitate in Pain In The Ass 101.
I was wondering how long it would take the dipsticks to come up with this. They won’t be satisfied until we are all sitting in caves in animal skins.
Wait they don’t want us skinning animals. I guess we would sit around the caves naked. Friggin Morons.
And so is coal, oil, gas, hydroelectric, wind, solar and geothermal.
What´s living? Safe?
Global warming next...........
Greem peas can never be safe.
Life is unsafe and 100% fatal. Worrying about it makes it really suck. Greenpeace sucks!
So is walking down wind of a Greenpeace person.
I would rather live next door to a nuke.
Everything, and I mean everything, on this Earth has some level of risk. I quite frankly am tired of these liberal demigogs who are trying to create "Heaven on Earth" by eliminating as much risk as possible.
ROFLMAO!! That made my day and will make the rounds of office in the morning.
Actually, just the opposite is proved. Fukushima is just about the worst case scenario that could ever happen at any nuclear power plant - i.e. an insignificant amount of radioactive leakage without the ability to damage the health of anyone. These nuts are slandering the cleanest, safest, and most environmentally friendly power production method available.
>>I would rather live next door to a nuke.
I used to live 125 feet from a nuke...that was operated by 20 year olds...and there were 16 Poseidon missiles in between me and the nuke. I laugh at Greenpeace and their pathetic fears!!
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