10 Mar, 2012
Asia Times Online : Nuclear power back from the grave
While staggering amounts of radiation were released into the environment (the danger of new discharges lurks: even the plant director acknowledges that the reactors are “still rather fragile”), the global nuclear industry seems unfazed.
Its executives have good reasons to be cheerful, despite the gloom that had started to spread among them last year. The human lust for power – in the forms of cheap energy and nuclear weapons – is unquenchable, and seems stronger even than the fear of death and collective destruction.
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