Wednesday, June 24, 2009
German minister rules out new nuclear power stations
Comment: US, pay attention to Germany, they are smart!! Nuke power is not clean, green or CO2 free, the steam from stacks have CO2 plus the uranium mining, milling or transportation, the building of the plant has CO2! Too expensive and dangerous!! I have been to Japan and seen the Reprocessing plant! It is scary to think of the nuke stuff that will be process there and plan to burn some of it and my family lives downwind!
BERLIN, June 19 (AFP) Jun 19, 2009
Germany's economy minister on Friday ruled out building new nuclear power stations but said the life of some reactors might be extended and the development of alternative technologies stepped up.
"We need limited extensions until we are able to work with sensible alternative technologies in an economical and environmentally friendly manner," Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily in an interview.
"That includes the possibility of equipping existing nuclear power stations with state-of-the-art technology in order to make them even safer and more efficient," the conservative minister said.
"But I see no need to build new nuclear reactors."
Asked if he were in favour of reversing the decision to abandon nuclear, zu Guttenberg said: "If we can manage to put in place quickly enough alternatives that make economic sense, no."
Germany decided in 2000 under former premier Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens -- when current Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives were in opposition -- to mothball its 17 reactors by about 2020.
The CDU/CSU conservative bloc's has been calling for some time for a re-think, but zu Guttenberg is the first conservative minister to rule out building new plants.
His comments are significant because they come less than four months before general elections in September.
At the election Merkel has the very real possibility to be able to dump as coalition partners the fellow architects of the nuclear phase-out, the centre-left SPD.
High oil prices in 2008, worries about the reliability of supplies from the Middle East and Russia and efforts to reduce Germany's greenhouse gas emissions have made a return to nuclear, as Italy is doing, less unpalatable.
German firms like Siemens, EON and RWE have highly active in tapping into the renewed interest in nuclear being seen worldwide, with over 30 reactors currently in construction, according to lobby group Deutsche Atomforum.
But polls show that a majority of Germans still remain opposed to nuclear power and believe the technology remains highly dangerous because of potential accidents and terrorist attacks.
Shipments of nuclear waste from France and other countries to the Gorleben storage site in northern Germany regularly spark angry protests by thousands of people.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/090619101723.hjisya7e.html
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PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA: TAKE NOTE!!!!!
AREVA: SUPERVILLAINS
We’re about to write to the producers of the James Bond movies with an idea for the story of the next film, and we wanted to know what you thought.
In our story, a super-villain uses radiation to give a group of people cancer. The people go to a doctor for help but unknown to them, the doctor has been paid by the super-villain to tell them that they have HIV/AIDS instead. What do you think? Too bleak? Too far-fetched and unrealistic? Who could suspend their disbelief when presented with such a preposterous plot?
Try the executives of France’s own nuclear super-villains, AREVA.
Did you know you could get HIV/AIDS from radioactive radiation? No? Well, the French Nuclear Corporation AREVA figures as much—and the company-owned hospitals prefer to diagnose the cancers of its mineworkers as cases of deadly HIV virus. Are we kidding you? No, this is actually happening in the north of Niger where AREVA is the majority shareholder of two companies (Somaïr and Cominak) that mine for uranium. But why the false diagnoses? The state-owned French company would rather not pay for the treatment of its former employees. The mineworkers and their families receive little or no information about the health hazards of uranium mining [instead, mining is pushed as a safe and wonderful opportunity for depressed areas to revive their economy!].
Read that again. Digest it. In Areva’s glorious plan for a nuclear future, some people won’t have a future. In order to save money, Areva lies to people about how and why they are sick or dying. At least the villains in James Bond movies are honest about their plans for death and destruction.
For such disgusting contempt for human life, Areva was entered into Public Eye’s 2008 Hall of Pain. Prison or one of the more terrifying circles of Dante’s Inferno would be preferable. But that’s the nuclear industry for you. Whether it be in Caetite, Brazil or Kakadu, Australia or Arlit, Niger, the nuclear industry’s lack of concern for human life is all too evident.
AREVA and their competitors clearly believe it’s a price worth paying . . . . . Do you?
We are not the "conspiracy”. The nuke industry aided and abetted by our elected officials are the perpetrators! It's not a "conspiracy" if it's true..........
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