Gothamist: Fallout

Dubsky

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:08:12 -0500

Read the Greenpeace report for yourself on their website (PDF download). There's a petition on their website too -- http://greenpeace.org/chernobylpetition -- which I would urge you to read and sign if you agree with. The petition will be sent to the UN, calling on United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and IAEA Director-General El Bharadei to stop its promotion of the nuclear industry.

pugsley

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:31:00 -0500

Interesting photos here - http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter1.html

Agitprop

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:27:18 -0500

Greenpeace's numbers are wildly exaggerated and based on very poor math (taking the statistics from the immediate area surrounding Chernobyl and applying them to the whole of Europe, for example). Coal power plants create far bigger problems with radioactive material than nuclear. On a plant-for-plant basis, coal produces more dangerous waste that gets directly into the atmosphere. What waste is created by nuclear plants is at least controllable. Chernobyl happened because the Soviets built a Nuclear plant with only a few safety precautions and used extremely poor concrete on the reactor casing. Then they bypassed all the protections and turned the reactor on. In order to create a meltdown on that level, an entire nuclear power plant would have to decide to reverse every safety precaution and then ramp the production to maximum. So, yes. Clean, safe power. So long as you don't actively try to kill people, of course.

Power

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:36:23 -0500

Clean, Safe Power???