Before and after Chernobyl: Nuclear Power in Crisis

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"A nuclear reactor accident, like the Chernobyl disaster, is indeed a logical consequence of something. But perhaps it will become clear, before radiatiort kills us all, that the cause of such accidents is not any national deficiency. It is the built in unavoidable deadly risks that cause accidents." "The expansion of nuclear power with various forms of atomic fuel has led to a situation in which no war can be other than an atomic war. Where reactors are as thick on the ground as they are in Western Europe, Eastern USA, Western USSR or Japan, it is out of the question that any form of bombing could occur without large radioactive releases." Ása Moberg explains why, in spite of all propaganda about ambitions expansion plans, new nuclear plants have become a practical impossibility in almost all countries with planned or already developed nuclear power programmes. This book gives a country by country report on the natural death of the nuclear power industry. The industry will reach... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"A nuclear reactor accident, like the Chernobyl disaster, is indeed a logical consequence of something. But perhaps it will become clear, before radiatiort kills us all, that the cause of such accidents is not any national deficiency. It is the built in unavoidable deadly risks that cause accidents." "The expansion of nuclear power with various forms of atomic fuel has led to a situation in which no war can be other than an atomic war. Where reactors are as thick on the ground as they are in Western Europe, Eastern USA, Western USSR or Japan, it is out of the question that any form of bombing could occur without large radioactive releases." Ása Moberg explains why, in spite of all propaganda about ambitions expansion plans, new nuclear plants have become a practical impossibility in almost all countries with planned or already developed nuclear power programmes. This book gives a country by country report on the natural death of the nuclear power industry. The industry will reach its peak around 1990, and then a steady decline will follow and result in a worldwide phase-out of nuclear power, most likely before 2030. Many factors work against nuclear power, but antinuclear activists everywhere have been, and continue to be, one of the most important obstacles. The public percieves nuclear plants as a dangerous risk. TMI, Chernobyl and similar accidents yet to come prove that this is a very correct perception. Vissza