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Nuclear Energy is not an option for India
by surya kiran on Mar 02, 2008 10:20 AM

US has not built any nuke plants in the last 30 years. US wants to take away around 35 billion worth of business from our firms. Ernest Moniz an MIT prof says electricity from nuclear plant in 2003 is 60% more costlty than other forms of power Decommissioning of old radioactive plants are costly. Long lived high level wastes have to be safely stored for a million years, without getting in to the environment. . Germany is installing solar panels at the speed of light and Iceland is exploiting its geothermal and hydropower resources beyond its own needs to keep away from nuke power. Research shows that nuke power not needed to cut CO 2. Human cost of nuclear power could be around 130 crore killed maimed or diseased by nuclear power since it's inception. The industry's figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims from the world. For five decades, humanity has been hoodwinked by the most poisonous confidence trick in history. After the Chernobyl disaster, some of the firemen employed to clean up the site after the explosion took huge doses of radiation during the task, and their story is a terrifying one. About 600,000 men were conscripted as Chernobyl `liquidators' farmers, factory workers, miners, and soldiers as well as professionals like the firemen from all across Russia. This was similar to the conscription of thousands of DAE staff from all over India, to work at US supplied TAPS I and II

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