Why nuclear power still SUCKS!
There are two kinds of people responsible for all things bad on this planet, idiots and greedy ones -although greediness is a form of idiocy. The difference is, the greedy idiot variety controls the plane idiot variety.
You don't have to be a rocket-scientist or a nuclear expert to figure this out:
Whatever the security measures, the technology or the level of safety of a fission reactor, there is always the statistical probability that something will go very wrong, whether from internal or external causes, malfunction, man-error, sabotage or just an unpredictable physical disaster.
So it's not "if" but "when" this will happen and when it does, radiation pollution cannot be reversed. There is no "cure" for radiation.
This might happen tomorrow, in one year, or in 100 years, when exactly it doesn't matter -it will make living on earth WORSE than before, PERMANENTLY. Also the chances are constantly increasing, since more countries with dubious safety measures are building new reactors, even on unsafe (seismic etc) areas.
And while the freaky-tech fans are preparing the next Fukushima-like disaster, there is damage done on a daily basis by the waste disposal. Waste-disposal is not always done properly -because of the cost. There are even cases where boats were sank to make nuke waste "disappear" the low cost way and people that investigated such cases were "disappeared" too. In other cases, they secretly dropped the barrels (not appropriate for nuclear waste) on the sea. As more countries adopt this kind or freaky-technology for the first time, such irresponsible disposal methods will become more common. It's freaky because it targets your DNA, it makes mutants and threatens life itself.
And there is the depleted uranium weapons (made from nuclear waste material). There are dead and deformed babies born, rising numbers of cancers, a dramatic increase in birth defects and other genetic disorders in Iraq and Afganishtan where hundreds of tons have dropped. Serious health consequences are already and will be felt for years also by men and women who were sent over there to fight. Expect the same in any current and future wars.
So we're actually sitting on not one, but many time bombs. Different disaster events might occur, maybe more than one in the next few decades.
The sooner we totally replace nuclear fission with green alternatives, the better. No, nuclear fission is NOT green.
It's not the only source of pollution, it's the only source that has permanent, irreversible destructive results. The only type of pollution that threats the human existence -therefore, the worst one. It simply doesn't worth the risk.
Even dummies should be able to understand that -except the greedy idiots concerned only about their own miserable, tiny lifespan. But even them, would be disappointed if they lived in Fukushima (even if not, if it wasn't beyond their capacity).
