Nuclear Power & Lack of Intellectual Integrity of Sarkari Scientists !

                       

Nuclear Power Hazardous to Human Environment

 The fact that the process of fissioning uranium in nuclear power reactors creates more than 200 new man-made radioactive elements, some of which remain radioactive for millions of years, is a well established scientific finding. It is also a well established fact that these diabolical elements, once created, will inevitably find their way into the environment and will eventually enter the reproductive organs of plants, animals and humans, where they will mutate the genes in reproductive cells to cause disease and death in the immediate generation or pass a hidden genetic disease to distant offspring down the time track.

 

Nuclear Power Reactor accidents induced by human error/ fallibility or due to natural calamities cannot be ruled out, as evidenced by melt-down of Three Mile Island Reactor in the United States, a massive power excursion erupted at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in former Soviet Union  and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster due to Tsunami in Japan as recent as March 2011. The possible threat of terrorist attacks, similar to the one on WTC Towers in New York, on Nuclear Power Reactors cannot be ruled out, by any stretch of imagination.

Myths of Nuclear Energy – Cheap, Clean & Safe!

The Nuclear Energy Institute ( NEI), the propaganda wing and trade group of American Nuclear Industry, spends millions of dollars annually, to engineer public opinion through extensive advertisements in Scientific Journals and other popular publications. The industry way back, even proclaimed that nuclear power would provide an endless supply of electricity that would be good for environment and "too cheap to meter" which is no where near the reality.

Taking into account the Economic Costs of Nuclear Power--A Very Expensive, Sophisticated and Dangerous Way to Boil Water-- which should include all benefits and costs incurred for the Society during its entire life cycle, the Solar Power may prove to be cheaper even today.

 

In fact, the vast hidden infrastructure necessary to create nuclear energy, called the nuclear fuel-cycle, is a prodigious user of fossil fuel and coal, which actually releases a large amount of carbon dioxide and as well as other global warming gases, although nuclear power plant itself releases no carbon dioxide.

  "Electricity is but the fleeting byproduct from Nuclear Power. The actual product is forever deadly radioactive waste.".

 

Nexus of Sarkari Scientists, Industry & Policy Makers?

 

The universally accepted "Precautionary Principle" forming part of 1992 Rio Declaration,    implies that there is a social responsibility to protect the public and environment from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk. These protections can be relaxed, only if further scientific findings emerge that provide sound evidence that no harm will result. But science, as it is being practiced these days, has become highly materialistic enterprise and lost its integrity and credibility.

 

But unfortunately, the Sarkari Scientists and the Policy Makers, who may not hesitate to compromise the interests of the public and environment, to serve the interests of private companies, are advocating Nuclear Power as Safe, Clean and Cheap, ignoring the "Precautionary Principle"

 

The powerful nexus of Private Companies, Policy Makers and Sarkari Scientists, advocating Nuclear Power for energy security, have built a strong fortress around them that no one will dare differ with their views and question them on the subject.  The scientists are so deluded with their invincibility, that they have no patience to listen to any other view and debate on it  leave alone accepting it.  

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