Godzilla and the Great Lakes

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:




Godzilla and the Great Lakes
Why nuclear plans for our water wonderland must be opposed

By Curt Guyette
Published: May 18, 2011


As News Hits walked away from a weekend conference that focused on this region's nuclear issues, we weren't sure what should be worrying us the most.

Is it the proposed underground repository in Ontario, where low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste would be buried within a mile of Lake Huron? Or the plan to ship radioactive boilers down the Detroit River and though the St. Lawrence Seaway to Sweden? Maybe it's the effort to build a new nuclear power plant down in Monroe, or perhaps the attempts to re-license the much-troubled Davis-Besse plant along Lake Erie in Ohio?

The conference, held on Saturday at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, and attended by about 50 people, featured a handful of experts long engaged in battles with the nuclear industry.

During one of several PowerPoint presentations, a photo of Godzilla appeared on the screens placed around the room. Introduced to the world by Japanese filmmakers in the 1950s, the monstrous mutant created by nuclear detonations serves as a fitting metaphor for the horrors currently unfolding at the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/news/godzilla-and-the-great-lakes-1.1148138

[pscot]

1. Fuck the Great Lakes

This is the dawn of the New American Nuclear Age. The future's so bright we'll have to wear shades. Hazmat suits optional.

[Mnemosyne]

2. And we won't need electric lights, because we will all glow. K&R n/t