While Japan earthquake has put his government to fight a possible nuclear catastrophe or more taking into account that radioactivity was released into the atmosphere and had to be evacuated over 600,000 people in the world and in particular in Spain, the shock has come to the debate on the need to encourage this type of energy. In recent years pronuclear lobby was doing everything possible to change public opinion about it until now always in favor of not building more reactors. We have seen how political parties changed their position, or reinforced in the case of PP, and how it government broke a campaign promise keeping Garoña running after its useful life, at least until 2013. The nuclear energy debate is not just a security issue, even if this one more reason to tip the balance toward one side, what is at stake is the proposed model of development. "We are committed to saving energy, limiting the consumption and renewables? Or continue looking for unlimited growth with the consequences we're seeing for all inhabitants of the planet? The only problem with the continuous increase production energy is not climate change, contrary to the arguments of the pro-nuclear. Our ecological footprint already exceeds the capacity of the planet's resources and waste assimilation.
In this line I would like to rescue an article I wrote a couple of years ago about it: "They will return the dark nuclear?
Hopefully, however, that the situation will not have big consequences and containment barriers will be able to endure even a merger in the reactor core of Fukushima Central, something that may already be happening. And d the same way as the accident at Three Mile Island, so far the closest to what is happening at the moment according to experts, stalled for three decades the nuclear program in several countries, that this situation will serve to reconsider a development model which requires a type of energy use has been proven difficult to control and the consequences of an accident can be devastating.
Anyway, I express my deepest sympathy to the Japanese people.
To better understand what happened:
key to understanding the nuclear alert in Japan (Efeverde).
nuclear disaster in Japan (Greenpeace).
nuclear alert in Japan (Ecologists in Action).
We say clearly: Nuclear NO (Juantxo Blog López de Uralde. Equo).
To follow the live coverage:
to react:
The Greens have organized an anti-nuclear concentration in Murcia:
Day March 17.
Time: 20 hours.
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