No Subsidies for the Nuclear Industry!

I woke this morning praying for the people in Japan effected by the  recent earthquake and tsunami.  I live in southern CA, which is directly across the water from them.   If something like happened at the San Luis Abispo nuclear plant,  thousands and thousands of people who live dangerously close to the plant would be lost.  Those who survived the initial disaster would be trapped there because the bridge laden roads they would use to evacuate, would be destroyed.   

Sites like the one in San Luis Obispo were not tested to withstand both an earthquake and a tsunami.  That is because the pro-nuclear energy experts said ,and are still saying something like that could never happen here - the possibility is too remote.  A week ago, the pro-nuclear experts in Japan would have said the same thing... Nuclear energy leaves no room for human error, natural or unnatural disasters.  There have always and will always be human error, natural and unnatural disasters.  Therefore, funding nuclear energy is funding disaster. 

Greenpeace agrees, saying:
"The disaster unfolding in Fukushima, Japan is a terrible reminder of the dangers of nuclear power. In the past 24 hours, the situation in Fukushima has gone from bad to worse. Reports out of Japan are suggesting that the cooling units on a number of reactors at the plant could fail at anytime. The simple truth is that no matter how advanced the technology and how prepared a country might be to deal with a disaster it doesn’t change the fact that nuclear power is inherently dangerous and always will be.  Right now the President has $36 billion in taxpayer giveaways to the nuclear industry to build more plants here in the US in his proposed budget."

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Thank you for reading my blog today.  Please be kind to yourself and to others and strive always to leave each place you visit the better for your having been there! - TCK