Posted on 12/18/2001 6:15:16 AM PST by logic101.net
SYDNEY, Australia; Dozens of Greenpeace activists dressed up as nuclear waste barrels stormed a nuclear reactor Monday, scaling the walls and unfurling protest banners.
Detective Inspector Laurie Pettiford of the New South Wales state police said 46 people were arrested Monday and would be charged with trespassing.
A four-wheel-drive vehicle was used to block the gates of the Lucas Heights reactor in southern Sydney as two truckloads of activists ran onto the grounds, scaling a radio tower, the main building and a waste storage facility.
Some unfurled banners reading: "Nuclear never safe." One protester chained himself to the top of the main building.
Pam Keenan, a spokeswoman for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, the government authority that runs Lucas Heights, said Lucas Heights has "layers" of security.
"Because of that security in-depth approach, there wasn't any breach of the secure part of the site," she said.
The facility, a research reactor where scientists produce radioactive medicines sold to hospitals, also supplies irradiated silicon for the semiconductor industry.
The reactor, about the size of a washing machine, possesses only enough radioactive uranium to fill a coffee cup.
Built in 1958, Australia's only reactor is due to be replaced next year.
"A new reactor is unnecessary," Greenpeace activist Stephen Campbell said in a statement explaining the protester's actions.
"A new reactor is unnecessary," Greenpeace activist Stephen Campbell said in a statement explaining the protester's actions.
Well, I guess that settles it; a professional protestor says that a new reactor is unnecessary. He's a professional, he wouldn't let the views of the man who signs his check cloud his judgement. And banners like "Nuclear never safe", well that's just another way of saying that this particular reactor is redundant, isn't it? You just have to trust a paid protester, otherwise who can you trust? No need to ask him to explain why a new one is unnecessary!
This particular reactor isn't even an atomic power plant; it produces atomic material that is used by doctors for things like radiation therapy for cancer patients. Can it now be said that (I've been waiting years to use this line); Greenpeace environmental policies will kill more people?
I can understand people not wanting an atomic power plant, not only in certain areas, but anywhere. I don't agree with them, but can understand it specifically because there are other ways to generate power. However, Greenpeace not only objects to atomic power plants, they protest coal, oil and natural gas plants also; because they cause emissions. They protest hydroelectric plants because some insignificant minnow might be upset. They protest wind farms because some bird might be too stupid to avoid the blades. They protest solar plants because it might harm the "delicate" ecosystem of the desert. What does that leave? Well, they might allow generators turned by mules; but then we'd have PETA on our backs....
I am really begining to wonder if Greenpeace is run by environmental wackos after all. I am starting to suspect that they might be run by covert Amish agents....
MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/
Want to bet that these same Greenies would be begging for radiation treatment when the come down with cancer some day.
LOL, I wonder if they wore tinfoil hats with that.
Someone post the "tinfoil guy."
Ya just have to laugh at this stuff. It's far too stupid to take seriously.
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