The End of the Nuclear Era? Not So Fast …

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This is an excerpt from an article by Sandy LeonVest/Solar Times -- well worth reading --

but though the final paragraph of the article was especially worth putting on the record ....



The UK Guardian recently released emails detailing the collusion between the UK government and the nuclear industry in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Two days after the earthquake, British government officials emailed EDF, Areva, Westinghouse and the Nuclear Industry Association to warn that the “Fukushima situation” could damage public confidence in nuclear power. It was not as bad as the television pictures suggested, they said. And (apparently attempting to hedge their nuclear bets), the officials invited industry executives to “send their comments,” so they could be included in government statements: “We need to all be working from the same material to get the message through to the media and the public,” one email declared. Yet another neatly summed up the UK government’s nuclear attitude. The email stated: “Anti-nuclear people across Europe have wasted no time blurring this all into Chernobyl and the works. We need to quash any stories trying to compare this to Chernobyl.”

Sandy LeonVest is the editor and publisher of SolarTimes, an independent quarterly energy newspaper with a progressive slant. SolarTimes is available online at www.solartimes.org, and distributed in hardcopy throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Sandy LeonVest's work has been published locally, as well as internationally, and includes 15 years in the news department at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, CA.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/25-1

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1. And Time Magazine had a clever little blurb in one of its early on

Articles on Fukushima to the effect that "there is just no recorded data to let us know what the effects of radiation might be."

Oh really? All those American Soldiers and Navy Personnel who were forced to stand at attention on the decks of the battle ships when islands in the Pacific were nuked? No data from their exposure?

And no data from Hiroshima or from Nagasaki? Or from the dozens if not hundreds of towns in Utah and Nevada where the death toll was staggering - sometimes 80% of the towns' populations dying eventually from cancer.

How stupid does the media think we are?

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2. dupe

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3. Outrageous and evil -- but that's our corporate-press .... !!!

For a brief while we saw a few stories about the soldiers who were betrayed --

remember there was a movie with Martin Sheen -- Leah Thompson -- but haven't

seen anything on it in a long time.

And, Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- imagine all we don't know about those records!

Even the records from Chernobyl were suppressed -- some of them have gotten

out recently --


Just when you think things couldn't get worse -- Fukushima -- !!

Heard Bernie Sanders yesterday talking about their nuclear reactor which they're

trying to close down - while the nuke company has applied for a 20 year extension!

Every state in the nation has to be thinking like Vermont!!



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4. Good ole Sanders!