A Fukushima on the Hudson?: The Growing Dangers of Indian Point

[kristopher]

17. You're right. Sometimes the truth just sucks. Take your slant here...

What has happened is that in order to serve corporate interests, the rightwing government of Japan is trying and ram nuclear down the throats of an unwilling populace. Public sentiment and the government then approved a transition to renewable energy after Fukushima, but the new rightwing government changed the plan with no public input.

The result? A long term stalemate that requires Japan to escalate consumption of fossil fuels. By now, if they'd pursued to original program they'd have built enough renewable generation and storage to almost completely compensate for the lost reactor capacity. They'd have also started well on the path to complete decarbonization of their economy.


Instead, because of the efforts to push nuclear on an unwilling population here we sit racking up CO2e by the ton.

It's the same thing in Britain where a conservative government destroyed a great renewable build program and an absolutely superb energy efficiency program so that they could preserve the rate base for several new reactors that they wanted to build but which every sane person knew was far too expensive by unit of electricity to ever get off the ground.

Again - massive quantities of unnecessary CO2e flow into the world just to serve the corporate masters that want to have a stranglehold on a nation's energy production.

Fuck those fairy tales you and Nnads tell about nuclear. It's a zombie industry.