Why must nuke-powered lemmings flock back to the radioactive sea?
April 10, 2007 It’s baaaaaack. The fifty-year multi-trillion dollar failure of atomic energy has resumed its lemming-like march to madness. Why? Isn’t the definition of insanity the belief that if you do the same thing again and again you’ll somehow get a different result? The first commercial reactor opened in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957. America was promised electricity “too cheap to meter.” That was a lie. America was promised there’d soon be consensus on a safe way to dispose of high-level radioactive waste. That was a lie. America was promised private insurance companies would soon indemnify reactor owners—and the public—against the consequences of a catastrophic meltdown. That was a lie. America was promised these reactors were “inherently safe.” Then America was told no fuel had melted at Three Mile Island. Lie and lie. Then they said nobody was killed at Three Mile Island Another lie. They said it took six years for acid to eat through to a fraction of an inch of the
