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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 03, 2010 at 17:51:03

RTH is big on energy issues, especially peak oil, and in that context we need to bring this stuff up.

We have absolutely no idea what the world map will look like in 50 or 100 years. Sprinkling reactors across the globe is irresponsible on a global scale. Civilian nuclear technology was developed from military reactors, and as such, virtually all of them can be re-tooled to produce weapons-grade isotopes. That's why it's always so hard to tell whether Iran and North Korea are making bombs or not. And even if people aren't building A-bombs and H-bombs, all it takes is a weather balloon and a hand grenade to afflict truly massive areas with a bizarre and unexplained rise in cancer rates.

They said deep-sea oil drilling was safe, too. And that highlights the problem, better than anything else I could point to. If a big disaster does hit, and results in a wide-scale ban on nuclear reactors, uranium mines or spent fuel storage? How will we keep the lights on?

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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