In France, opposition to nuclear growing

[jpak]

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2011/04/20/In-France-opposition-to-nuclear-growing/UPI-18891303325110/

Opposition to nuclear power is growing in France, the world's second-largest nuclear energy market behind the United States.

Environmental activists have staged demonstrations and launched hunger strikes to call for the closure of the Unit 1 reactor at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, one of France's oldest.

Built in 1977, the reactor is in eastern France about 1 mile from the German border, in an area that experiences frequent earthquakes.

Amid the unfolding nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in Japan, two Swiss cantons nearby called on the French government to close Fessenheim until its safety is guaranteed.

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[DCKit]

1. "...to close Fessenheim until its safety is guaranteed."

Too funny. Though some here would say "it's worth the risk"... however high that might be.

[madokie]

3. There is no safe nuclear power plants. period, ever

I agree with you 100%

Look at what could be if one of the ones up in the northeast of here would do if it was to have an accident. Its just not worth the risk and never was worth the risk. Just because they've made it for 20 30 40 years in some cases they think they'll continue on for 20 more and thats whats going to bite us in the ass. Metals fatigue with heat, pressure, movement and age so it's only a matter of time before one fucks some people and area up. I say shut them down today, right now and let us deal with it, I think we can handle it for the most part. Some of us might be without power part of the day but we could do that if need be while safer systems are built up. We're lost our manufacturing base so there is a large part of what our capacity used to be was and its gone. I think we can make up for the loss of 19%,(last I read) of our energy and still function.

Fuck don't even want to get started on what we do with the albatrosses except wear them around out necks until they rot off but hell that'll be a long ass time. They should have tried for treason or whatever fits, the first person who suggested using fission for peaceful purposes. I guess the military industrial complex had to have something to do so make bomb for when you do get someone in the whitehouse whose crazy like the dick and w were you could use em. We'll never know how close we came to a nuclear event in the middle east during the dicks rein

[buddysmellgood]

4. It's like bungee jumping with an old rope.

[DCKit]

5. Shoot. In all of this, I'd completely forgotten about radiation-induced metal fatigue.

I'd say "Thanks for the reminder", but now I'm thinking about all the 40 year-old plants scattered across the U.S..

[kristopher]

2. 65% of French believe the nuclear plants in France are a risk to them

And that was at the end of 2009.

[madokie]

6. Maybe this will put it away forever

For a while after Chernobyl and TMI the call for more nuclear energy had pretty much quieted. Only to raise its ugly head when global warming was on the front burner, in everyones mind. The risk is far too great and its that damn simple, to me anyway. The world can rebound from a fossil fueled CO2 demise a lot quicker and safer that it can if we poison ourselves into none existence with these things. We do have a responsibility to leave this world habitable. and when you talk about plutonium its forever. how do you warn people 1000 2000 years from now after we destroy our way with the co2 that nuclear can't answer anyway. I mean how do you leave a heaping pile of shit for the future generations possibility like I said a thousand years, how do we warn them about this stuff? Every thing else will pretty much take care of itself in time, be recycled.
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