Nuclear energy = Placebo

And yet, we seem to be going for it hammer and tongs.

The Dutch government too...

There are enough very solid reasons to be against, here are but a few:

- There's not enough available fuel on earth for a switch on a grand scale. Uranium is not a renewable resource and the amount of fuel available is not all that much - certainly not enough to sustain this drive worldwide.

- It is wildly expensive. I know it's been touted as cheap energy but when you look at the maths, it is shocking. Google it.

- Security is a problem - we don't do too good a job of security at present when it comes to waste products or the physical plants themselves, good grief what will it be like when there are hundreds, thousands more?!

- Plant safety is a problem. Yes it is. There is no such thing as a failsafe plant. And the consequences of a little "oops" are really too unacceptable. We lucked out with Chernobyl. Next time we might not be so lucky, next time the death toll could run up much higher. Next time the wind might be unfortunate. Next time. There will be a next time, everyone understands this. We all hope it will not be anywhere near where we live, don't we.

- Waste products are a huge problem. Right now we don't have secure ways of disposing of it, what makes us think things will magically improve??! And then we don't even look at the journey to the disposal site, eh. How do we get all that toxic radioactive junk there safely...

- Health is a problem for plant workers, surrounds. Just look at the area of contamination in the UK. Right now, there is no child without radioactive junk in their teeth! And now imagine what it will look like multiplied by goodness knows which factor...

- Plus, the energy sums simply don't add up. It's not so cheap and abundant as has been sold.

- Plus, it's not exactly carbon neutral when you look at the full picture. Look at France, carefully.

Plus, we simply don't have the time to do this conversion. And then find out that "oops, it is not exactly what we need, let's convert to some other form of energy...." - by that time we will have run out of time.

I could go on for a while.

It seems to make no damn difference.
We seem to want an easy solution to this problem and so we go for the propaganda.
Problem fixed, no need to do anything more.
(well, maybe a Prius and change the light bulbs)

Lemmings, awayyyyy!

It makes me quite mad.