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Diese Graphik stammt vom Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (Berlin) |
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Diese Graphik stammt vom Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (Berlin) |
No fun. |
| Do they really know, what they are talking about? Nuclear Energy - two words inspiring tens of thousands of Iranians to scream for it on the streets of Teheran. |
| Recently, I saw Harrison Ford as the commander of a soviet submarine driven by nuclear energy. Something went wrong with the engine, and although the crew was able to fix the problem, it took 8 crew members tinkering in close proximity to the nuclear reactor from where they got back after 10 min, each of them vomiting and unable to walk unaided. The Kathryn Bigelow film was based on a true event in 1961 (the name of the submarine was U-19). The trailer reported the death of 20 crew members within a short time after the accident. |
| This is nuclear energy. |
| Bring together a few kg of uranium, isotope 235, and it will heat up within seconds, devouring everything within a distance of several km in a flash of heat and shock, not even leaving the remains of living creatures. |
| This is nuclear energy. |
| It takes just one tired operator, disregarding all security rules in the middle of the night, to contaminate the fertile soil of half of Europe for years, raising the natural content of radioactivity in milk by factors of up to 20. |
| This is nuclear energy. |
| As for 2005, 443 nuclear power plants were licenced in the world. The quantity of radioactive waste they produce is estimated at 12 000 tonnes each year. This material is stored away behind shields, to protect us from its life-threatening radiation. It contains many long-lived nuclides that will still emanate their radiation after thousands of years. |
| This is nuclear energy. |
| How can there be, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after K-19 and Tschernobyl, just one reasonable person in the whole world, really to want that crazy thing? Humans should not play around with this deadly toy, neither the Americans, nor the Russians, nor the Iranians. Our behavioral repertoire, evolved over the ages, has no category for this nightmare. All nations, without exception, have to agree in its strict control. There is no way around it, since humans usually cannot undo their discoveries. |
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