Comments on: If the French can do it, why can’t we? http://blatantreality.com/2008/05/29/if-the-french-can-do-it-why-cant-we/ Highlighting Emerging Energy Technologies Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:22:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: www.SolarPeace.ch http://blatantreality.com/2008/05/29/if-the-french-can-do-it-why-cant-we/comment-page-1/#comment-5350 www.SolarPeace.ch Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:53:30 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/05/29/if-the-french-can-do-it-why-cant-we/#comment-5350 «The quantity of radioactivity, which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity spread by a nuclear bomb - significantly larger.», (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist . «Since a reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt nuclear explosion, and fuel in a reactor has typically been there for an average of two years, a typical nuclear reactor has in its core the long-lived radioisotopes from 30 megatons of fission.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), »Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power?«, Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001 . Please inform the public regarding the «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity»: . • A nuclear power plant produces each day the same amount of radioactivity than 4 nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima! . • The 5 Swiss nuclear power plants contain radioactivity approximately the size of 10'000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs! This in the production of 2 years. . This inconceivable amount of radioactivity – this «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity» – threatens and destroys the foundations of life for our and all future generations. The physical half-lives are completely irrelevant, as they are eternal from a human perspective. Also irrelevant is the calculated probability for accidents, as the potential for damage is far too gigantic. The nuclear physicist Garwin says: «Reactor accidents ... too horrible to think about.» A trustworthy banker would advice: «We do not buy these shares» and insurances don't cover this risk anyway. . Upon the election of Barack Obama, it was the German politician Hans Dietrich Genscher, who reminded strongly and multiple times to the global top priority: The complete abolition of all nuclear weapons! . Beside the financial crises and despite the «Climatic Change caused by CO2», we should not forget this. And we shouldn't forget as well, that this – the abolition of all nuclear weapons – finally is only possible together with the abolition of all nuclear power plants, therefore the switch to Natural Power (electricity from renewable energies) is a pre-requisite. The nuclear conflict in Iran is one but not the only example of this undividable relation between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. «The quantity of radioactivity, which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity spread by a nuclear bomb – significantly larger.», (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist
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«Since a reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt nuclear explosion, and fuel in a reactor has typically been there for an average of two years, a typical nuclear reactor has in its core the long-lived radioisotopes from 30 megatons of fission.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), »Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power?«, Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001
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Please inform the public regarding the «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity»:
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• A nuclear power plant produces each day the same amount of radioactivity than 4 nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima!

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• The 5 Swiss nuclear power plants contain radioactivity approximately the size of 10’000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs! This in the production of 2 years.
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This inconceivable amount of radioactivity – this «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity» – threatens and destroys the foundations of life for our and all future generations. The physical half-lives are completely irrelevant, as they are eternal from a human perspective. Also irrelevant is the calculated probability for accidents, as the potential for damage is far too gigantic. The nuclear physicist Garwin says: «Reactor accidents … too horrible to think about.» A trustworthy banker would advice: «We do not buy these shares» and insurances don’t cover this risk anyway.
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Upon the election of Barack Obama, it was the German politician Hans Dietrich Genscher, who reminded strongly and multiple times to the global top priority: The complete abolition of all nuclear weapons!
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Beside the financial crises and despite the «Climatic Change caused by CO2», we should not forget this. And we shouldn’t forget as well, that this – the abolition of all nuclear weapons – finally is only possible together with the abolition of all nuclear power plants, therefore the switch to Natural Power (electricity from renewable energies) is a pre-requisite. The nuclear conflict in Iran is one but not the only example of this undividable relation between nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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