Pages tagged “nuclear”
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The Risks of Nuclear for FNQ Forum
The Risks of Nuclear for FNQ
This forum is being held on Wednesday 12 March at 6.30pm. It aims to correct the misinformation spread by Dutton and others about nuclear energy.
Rather than being clean and green, as they would have us believe, nuclear power is in fact too costly and slow to help the climate crisis.
It also has a poor safety record with two catastrophic nuclear disasters in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Everyone interested in promoting a clean and just energy transition is invited to come along.
Register here.
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Nuclear Madness
Nuclear energy is being touted as clean and green. However, the environment and economic cost of nuclear accidents, uranium mining and nuclear powered submarines tell a different story.
The economic cost of the clean up of Fukushima has been $7.3 billion dollars a year since the nuclear disaster in 2011 and no end is in sight.1 There have now been 7 discharges of radioactive waste water from Fukushima into the Pacific, releasing a total of 23,589 m3 of contaminated water and approximately 8.9 trillion becquerels of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. 2.