Fission Nuclear Energy - an irresponsible initiative of scientists and engineers endangering humanity!
But the post disaster management is the issue. In case a bridge falls, or a building collapses or a flight drops in ocean, the damage is limited to that event only.
Unlike these, the nuclear disaster, is without remedial measures. The radiation troubles go on and on and with only 4% enrichment the uranium once triggered has shown what it can do us. The great nation Japan is humbled. Tap water in Tokyo cannot be consumed.
Further apart from wringing hands and praying all the nuclear experts have left the matter to those brave poor workers who still keep going on to the FUkushima work site....the scientist who designed I see sitting in his offcie and looking quite grim.
Humans when they design, the safety case analysis and clear risk assessment and education to all concerned must be there. Nuclear case is there is no remedy post disaster.
It is said rightly, disasters occur. But here is the glaring case where nuclear experts have thought themselves to be Gods, who can design systems to with stand any disaster! Because disaster is one thing the nuclear engineers do not have solution for.
If disasters are natural, then the consequences should be such that we can mitigate the same. But in case of radio isotopes, we just succumb to them. The collateral damages are irreversible.
Then the spent fuel storage. The governments are secretive where they are hiding all the nuclear waste. You may dig mines to hide them. But having triggered the rods, we continue to have the radiation horror for hundreds of years(?) or more than that. These piles are sealed in huge boxes like treasure boxes and kept away from present generation.
The dangerous muck we are leaving behind for the posterity is irresponsible. Pity those who discover these treasure boxes in their search for discovery of new knowledge or wealth, in future.
I agree science and knowledge should progress to help humanity to improve quality of life. But what is happening is thoughtless and insensitive application of half-baked knowledge with uncontrollable consequences.
Scientists and engineers have failed the humanity in wanton irresponsible implementation of nuclear energy projects.
Any technology shall answer the question of post disaster implications and capacity to protect humans from protracted hundreds of years of irreversible loss of quality of life.
Nuclear disaster is not the same as other infrastructure failures. It needs only some 10 ICBMs to misfire to plunge all of us in to a long night of radiation of horrors, lasting may be a couple of hundreds of years.
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