Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Good Words on nuclear energy

"Increasingly, nuclear power is also promoted because it is safe. Which it is -- except, of course, when it is not. Chances of a major disaster are tiny, one in a hundred million. But in the event of a statistically improbable major disaster, the damage could include, say, the destruction of a city or the poisoning of a country. . . . [A]s we are about to learn in Japan, the true costs of nuclear power are never reflected even in the very high price of plant construction."
-- Anne Applebaum, in her WaPo column today,

lifted from Down with Tyranny