Nuclear power is not the answer.
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~Albert Einstein
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Petersen_Thermageddon.htm
======
From
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
by Helen Caldicott, MD 2006
http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&task=author&author_id=P14771
http://nuclearpolicy.org/?Page=Module&ModuleID=55
page 4
...Although a nuclear power plant itself releases no carbon dioxide, the production of nuclear electricity depends upon a vast, complex, and hidden industrial infrastructure that is never featured by the nuclear industry in its propaganda, but that actually releases a large amount of carbon dioxide as well as other global warming gases...the vast infrastructure necessary to create nuclear energy, called the nuclear fuel cycle, is a prodigious user of fossil fuel...most of the energy used to create nuclear energy - to mine uranium ore for fuel, to crush and mill the ore, to enrich the uranium to create the concrete and steel for the reactor, and to store the thermally and radioactively hot waste - comes from the consumption of fossil fuels, that is coal or oil...
page8
...millions of tons of radioactive material that is currently dumped on the ground, often on native Indian tribal land, emitting radioactive elements to the air and water...the remediation process also involves the extensive use of fossil fuels and the production of more carbon dioxide...
page 13
...At the end of its lifetime, the reactor will need to be cleaned of extensive quantities of accumulated radioactive material...separate from decommissioning, may be energetically very expensive and will need as much energy debt as 50% of the original energetic construction costs...
The water that cools the reactor core becomes heavily contaminated with tritium, or radioactive hydrogen, and with carbon 14, the long-term medical and ecological effects of which are not well understood...radioactive life of tritium is more than 200 years,...of carbon 14 is 114,600 years...
page 15
...Every year,one-third of the now-intensely radioactive fuel rods must be removed from the reactor, because they are so contaminated with fission products that they hinder the efficiency of the electricity production. These rods emit so much radiation that a lethal dose can be acquired by a person standing in close proximity to a single spent fuel rod within seconds. But they are also extremely thermally hot and must therefore be stored for thirty to sixty years in a heavily shielded building and continually cooled by air or water. If they are not continually cooled , the zirconium cladding of the rod could become so hot that it would spontaneously burn, releasing its radioactive inventory. Finally, after and adequate cooling period, the rods must eventually be packed into a container by remote control.
Construction of these highly specialized containers uses as much energy as construction of the original reactor itself...To make matters worse, spent fuel packaging is a completely new and relatively untested technology for which there is no operational data.
Transportation of High-Level and Intermediate Waste and Long-Term Storage for 240,000 Years...
page 19
Paying for Nuclear Energy
The True Economic Costs of Nuclear Energy
The nuclear energy myth...costs...apply only to...existing nuclear reactors...omission of capital costs of construction, regulatory delays, and the like...
A report from the New Economics Foundation titled "Mirage and Oasis: Energy Choices in an Age of Global Warming" concluded that the cost of nuclear power had been underestimated by almost a factor of three. Indeed, the nuclear industry baldly provides false estimates of the financial cost of nuclear electricity, failing to account for the total nuclear fuel cycle, basing their numbers on incomplete data. Were the true costs to be factored in, the unit cost of nuclear power would rise dramatically....
...once realistic construction and running costs are considered, the price of nuclear electricity rises...
page 21
...Socialized Electricity
Perhaps the reason the leading nuclear power producers do not seem fazed by the high tab for nuclear power is that they do not expect to pick it up. Despite the fact that most developed countries are rhetorically wedded to principles of the "free market," their governments remain inexplicably enthusiastic about a form of energy that cannot be sustained without huge government subsidies and handouts. This socialization of nuclear electricity within a capitalist society has never been called into question, nor has it been critically scrutinized by the general public and their elected representatives. Yet dozens of the same CEOs calling for welfare reform with respect to individuals benefit from policies that amount to corporate welfare for the nuclear power industry...
...Nuclear power was and still is an offshoot of the nuclear weapons industry and a beneficiary of the intensive government-funded research and development committed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War...nuclear energy's renaissance is based on a string of lies that begins by casting nuclear energy as the answer to global warming and goes to position it as the economically responsible alternative to those "expensive renewable energy sources."
...Overt fabrications are propagated from the highest levels...
page 22
...the nuclear power industry's revival is utterly dependent upon taking money out of the taxpayer's pocket.
...it must be clearly stated to those investing millions...that they will lose all, should there be a catastrophic nuclear meltdown in the United States or any other part of the world...A very experienced nuclear engineer, David Lochbaum, who works for the Union of Concerned Scientists is deeply concerned about the current lack of safety standards in U.S. reactors and is convinced there will be a nuclear catastrophe within the near future..."It's not if but when."...
Nuclear power has been and still is dependent upon government subsidies at every level...
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Time is short
http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-climate-of-global-warming
======
http://ww4report.com/node/2922
...the United States government is violating the human rights of...by refusing to limit its greenhouse gas emissions...
======
From
Thermageddon
Countdown to 2030
by Robert Hunter, cofounder of Greenpeace 2003
http://thermageddon.com
http://www.arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100189270
page 124
...the leader of the small island state of Nauru, and elderly gentleman named Kinza Clodumar...His soft but passionate words...After poignantly describing how most of his country's interior had been destroyed by colonial mining interests, Clodumar had paused, composed himself, and said
My people have been confined to the narrow coastal fringe that separates this wasteland from our mother the sea...but two meters above the sea surface. We are trapped, a wasteland at our back, and at our front, a terrifying, rising flood of biblical proportions. We submit respectfully that the willful destruction of entire countries and cultures, with foreknowledge, would represent an unspeakable crime against humanity. No nation has the right to place its own misconstrued national interest before the physical and cultural survival of whole countries...
======
Independent Progressive Politics Network
http://ippn.org
======
Fixing ozone hole raises warming concerns
CFCs replaced by chemicals that release greenhouse gas emissions
By John Heilprin 8/21/6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14452816/
======
Treatment with 'friendly' bacteria could counter autism in children
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1308572006
======
Darfur crisis linked to climate change: UK
by Bill Weinberg 4/17/7
http://ww4report.com/node/3634
...John Ashton, Prime Minister Tony Blair's special ambassador on climate change. "But there is absolutely no doubt that it's a more difficult conflict to deal with, because on top of all that, you've had a 40% fall in the rainfall in northern Darfur over the last 25 to 30 years, again in a way that's entirely consistent with what the climate models would have told you to expect."...
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"wintergreen mint plant"
http://www.newfrontier.com/nepal/glossary.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
======
From:
The Provocateur State
Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"—and Global Terrorism?
by Frank Morales
http://ww4report.com/node/457
...US Army Field Manual 30-31B, entitled "Stability Operations Intelligence - Special Fields," dated March 18, 1970 and signed by Gen. William C Westmoreland, promoted terrorist attacks (and the planting of false evidence) in public places which were then to be blamed on "communists" and "socialists." It called for the execution of terrorist attacks throughout Western Europe, carried out through a network of covert US/NATO armies, in order to convince European governments of "the communist threat."
What's striking is that during this period the primary source for US government info on the Russian "threat" was coming from the Gehlen Organiation, Hitlers eastern front intelligence apparatus, which in the aftermath of World War II had cut a deal with the CIA's Allen Dulles and worked out of Fort Hunt, just outside Washington DC, before being relocated back to Munich. Headed up by super-spy Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, the Org's "special operations" expertise was heeded, financed and well-protected by U.S. tax dollars well into the 1970's...
======
Venezuela criticizes DEA as 'new cartel'
by Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_drugs
...accusing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of being a "new cartel" that aids traffickers.
Justice Minister Pedro Carreno said the South American nation suspended cooperation with the agency in 2005 after determining that "they were moving a large amount of drugs." President Hugo Chavez at the time also accused the DEA of spying.
"The United States with its DEA monopolizes the shipping of drugs like a cartel," Carreno told reporters....
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Brzezinski confirms that the United States can organise attacks in their own territory
2/2/7
http://www.voltairenet.org/article145515.html#article145515
With the exception of Washington Note and Financial Times, the mainstream media decided not to report Zbigniew Brzezinski’s comments that shatter the United Stator ruling class. Auditioned on February 1st, 2007 by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the former National Security Adviser read a statement the terms of which had been carefully chosen.
He indicated that : " a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan".
As you must have noticed: Mr Brzezinski evoked the Bush administration plausible organization of an attack in the United States, and the possibility of holding Iran wrongly responsible for it.
In Washington the analysts hesitate between two interpretations of this statement. For certain officials, the former National Security Adviser tried to beat the neoconservatives to it and to cast doubt in advance on any circumstance which would lead to the war. For others, Mr Brzezinski wanted, in addition, to suggest that in case of collision with the war partisans, he could reopen the September 11th file. In any case, Thierry Meyssan’s hypothesis - According to which the September 11th attacks would have been perpetrated by a Military-Industrial Complex faction to provoke the Afghanistan and Iraq wars - Leaves suddenly the taboo domain to be discussed publicly by Washington elites.
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Steve Frisby's Geometric Art
http://stevefrisby.co.uk
======
http://tribes.tribe.net/realityportaltribe
http://people.tribe.net/realityportal
http://worldwidenlightenment.com
http://realityportal.info
======
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Pittsburgh
http://psrpittsburgh.org
======
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~Albert Einstein
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Petersen_Thermageddon.htm
======
From
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
by Helen Caldicott, MD 2006
http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&task=author&author_id=P14771
http://nuclearpolicy.org/?Page=Module&ModuleID=55
page 4
...Although a nuclear power plant itself releases no carbon dioxide, the production of nuclear electricity depends upon a vast, complex, and hidden industrial infrastructure that is never featured by the nuclear industry in its propaganda, but that actually releases a large amount of carbon dioxide as well as other global warming gases...the vast infrastructure necessary to create nuclear energy, called the nuclear fuel cycle, is a prodigious user of fossil fuel...most of the energy used to create nuclear energy - to mine uranium ore for fuel, to crush and mill the ore, to enrich the uranium to create the concrete and steel for the reactor, and to store the thermally and radioactively hot waste - comes from the consumption of fossil fuels, that is coal or oil...
page8
...millions of tons of radioactive material that is currently dumped on the ground, often on native Indian tribal land, emitting radioactive elements to the air and water...the remediation process also involves the extensive use of fossil fuels and the production of more carbon dioxide...
page 13
...At the end of its lifetime, the reactor will need to be cleaned of extensive quantities of accumulated radioactive material...separate from decommissioning, may be energetically very expensive and will need as much energy debt as 50% of the original energetic construction costs...
The water that cools the reactor core becomes heavily contaminated with tritium, or radioactive hydrogen, and with carbon 14, the long-term medical and ecological effects of which are not well understood...radioactive life of tritium is more than 200 years,...of carbon 14 is 114,600 years...
page 15
...Every year,one-third of the now-intensely radioactive fuel rods must be removed from the reactor, because they are so contaminated with fission products that they hinder the efficiency of the electricity production. These rods emit so much radiation that a lethal dose can be acquired by a person standing in close proximity to a single spent fuel rod within seconds. But they are also extremely thermally hot and must therefore be stored for thirty to sixty years in a heavily shielded building and continually cooled by air or water. If they are not continually cooled , the zirconium cladding of the rod could become so hot that it would spontaneously burn, releasing its radioactive inventory. Finally, after and adequate cooling period, the rods must eventually be packed into a container by remote control.
Construction of these highly specialized containers uses as much energy as construction of the original reactor itself...To make matters worse, spent fuel packaging is a completely new and relatively untested technology for which there is no operational data.
Transportation of High-Level and Intermediate Waste and Long-Term Storage for 240,000 Years...
page 19
Paying for Nuclear Energy
The True Economic Costs of Nuclear Energy
The nuclear energy myth...costs...apply only to...existing nuclear reactors...omission of capital costs of construction, regulatory delays, and the like...
A report from the New Economics Foundation titled "Mirage and Oasis: Energy Choices in an Age of Global Warming" concluded that the cost of nuclear power had been underestimated by almost a factor of three. Indeed, the nuclear industry baldly provides false estimates of the financial cost of nuclear electricity, failing to account for the total nuclear fuel cycle, basing their numbers on incomplete data. Were the true costs to be factored in, the unit cost of nuclear power would rise dramatically....
...once realistic construction and running costs are considered, the price of nuclear electricity rises...
page 21
...Socialized Electricity
Perhaps the reason the leading nuclear power producers do not seem fazed by the high tab for nuclear power is that they do not expect to pick it up. Despite the fact that most developed countries are rhetorically wedded to principles of the "free market," their governments remain inexplicably enthusiastic about a form of energy that cannot be sustained without huge government subsidies and handouts. This socialization of nuclear electricity within a capitalist society has never been called into question, nor has it been critically scrutinized by the general public and their elected representatives. Yet dozens of the same CEOs calling for welfare reform with respect to individuals benefit from policies that amount to corporate welfare for the nuclear power industry...
...Nuclear power was and still is an offshoot of the nuclear weapons industry and a beneficiary of the intensive government-funded research and development committed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War...nuclear energy's renaissance is based on a string of lies that begins by casting nuclear energy as the answer to global warming and goes to position it as the economically responsible alternative to those "expensive renewable energy sources."
...Overt fabrications are propagated from the highest levels...
page 22
...the nuclear power industry's revival is utterly dependent upon taking money out of the taxpayer's pocket.
...it must be clearly stated to those investing millions...that they will lose all, should there be a catastrophic nuclear meltdown in the United States or any other part of the world...A very experienced nuclear engineer, David Lochbaum, who works for the Union of Concerned Scientists is deeply concerned about the current lack of safety standards in U.S. reactors and is convinced there will be a nuclear catastrophe within the near future..."It's not if but when."...
Nuclear power has been and still is dependent upon government subsidies at every level...
======
Time is short
http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-climate-of-global-warming
======
http://ww4report.com/node/2922
...the United States government is violating the human rights of...by refusing to limit its greenhouse gas emissions...
======
From
Thermageddon
Countdown to 2030
by Robert Hunter, cofounder of Greenpeace 2003
http://thermageddon.com
http://www.arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100189270
page 124
...the leader of the small island state of Nauru, and elderly gentleman named Kinza Clodumar...His soft but passionate words...After poignantly describing how most of his country's interior had been destroyed by colonial mining interests, Clodumar had paused, composed himself, and said
My people have been confined to the narrow coastal fringe that separates this wasteland from our mother the sea...but two meters above the sea surface. We are trapped, a wasteland at our back, and at our front, a terrifying, rising flood of biblical proportions. We submit respectfully that the willful destruction of entire countries and cultures, with foreknowledge, would represent an unspeakable crime against humanity. No nation has the right to place its own misconstrued national interest before the physical and cultural survival of whole countries...
======
Independent Progressive Politics Network
http://ippn.org
======
Fixing ozone hole raises warming concerns
CFCs replaced by chemicals that release greenhouse gas emissions
By John Heilprin 8/21/6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14452816/
======
Treatment with 'friendly' bacteria could counter autism in children
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1308572006
======
Darfur crisis linked to climate change: UK
by Bill Weinberg 4/17/7
http://ww4report.com/node/3634
...John Ashton, Prime Minister Tony Blair's special ambassador on climate change. "But there is absolutely no doubt that it's a more difficult conflict to deal with, because on top of all that, you've had a 40% fall in the rainfall in northern Darfur over the last 25 to 30 years, again in a way that's entirely consistent with what the climate models would have told you to expect."...
======
"wintergreen mint plant"
http://www.newfrontier.com/nepal/glossary.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
======
From:
The Provocateur State
Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"—and Global Terrorism?
by Frank Morales
http://ww4report.com/node/457
...US Army Field Manual 30-31B, entitled "Stability Operations Intelligence - Special Fields," dated March 18, 1970 and signed by Gen. William C Westmoreland, promoted terrorist attacks (and the planting of false evidence) in public places which were then to be blamed on "communists" and "socialists." It called for the execution of terrorist attacks throughout Western Europe, carried out through a network of covert US/NATO armies, in order to convince European governments of "the communist threat."
What's striking is that during this period the primary source for US government info on the Russian "threat" was coming from the Gehlen Organiation, Hitlers eastern front intelligence apparatus, which in the aftermath of World War II had cut a deal with the CIA's Allen Dulles and worked out of Fort Hunt, just outside Washington DC, before being relocated back to Munich. Headed up by super-spy Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, the Org's "special operations" expertise was heeded, financed and well-protected by U.S. tax dollars well into the 1970's...
======
Venezuela criticizes DEA as 'new cartel'
by Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_drugs
...accusing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of being a "new cartel" that aids traffickers.
Justice Minister Pedro Carreno said the South American nation suspended cooperation with the agency in 2005 after determining that "they were moving a large amount of drugs." President Hugo Chavez at the time also accused the DEA of spying.
"The United States with its DEA monopolizes the shipping of drugs like a cartel," Carreno told reporters....
======
Brzezinski confirms that the United States can organise attacks in their own territory
2/2/7
http://www.voltairenet.org/article145515.html#article145515
With the exception of Washington Note and Financial Times, the mainstream media decided not to report Zbigniew Brzezinski’s comments that shatter the United Stator ruling class. Auditioned on February 1st, 2007 by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the former National Security Adviser read a statement the terms of which had been carefully chosen.
He indicated that : " a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan".
As you must have noticed: Mr Brzezinski evoked the Bush administration plausible organization of an attack in the United States, and the possibility of holding Iran wrongly responsible for it.
In Washington the analysts hesitate between two interpretations of this statement. For certain officials, the former National Security Adviser tried to beat the neoconservatives to it and to cast doubt in advance on any circumstance which would lead to the war. For others, Mr Brzezinski wanted, in addition, to suggest that in case of collision with the war partisans, he could reopen the September 11th file. In any case, Thierry Meyssan’s hypothesis - According to which the September 11th attacks would have been perpetrated by a Military-Industrial Complex faction to provoke the Afghanistan and Iraq wars - Leaves suddenly the taboo domain to be discussed publicly by Washington elites.
======
Steve Frisby's Geometric Art
http://stevefrisby.co.uk
======
http://tribes.tribe.net/realityportaltribe
http://people.tribe.net/realityportal
http://worldwidenlightenment.com
http://realityportal.info
======
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Pittsburgh
http://psrpittsburgh.org
======
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