Looking at the horrific pictures of the latest earthquake to hit Japan, and the resultant tsunami was an eye-opener. However, the effects of this on the nuclear power plants was even more scary. How can we even entertain the thought of these power plants?
I think of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and now the Fukushima disaster and then I think of the Koeberg station right on my front doorstep. It is to my mind so fool-hardy to commission these nuclear plants when there are safer alternatives.
Have we learnt nothing from the past? Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, were both terrible crimes against humanity, yet here we go blithely putting our faith in nuclear power stations which are going to be our downfall.
At the moment I believe there are over 1,9 million people without electricity because the nuclear plants have had to be shut down. Some of those who lived near these plants have been subjected to radiation checks, some have shown signs of contamination. They are without their homes in many instances, and what is more, the country has ground to a halt. Its a dire situation.
Nuclear power is not what the world needs. We have places like Iraq trying out nuclear programmes. Who knows what this will do to our world.
The only way we can look after the future of the planet is to stop any nuclear devices, including the generation of nuclear electricity. There are alternatives: like wind power, solar power, wave power, all a lot less dangerous to the survival of mankind.
In my own neighbourhood, the powers that be are looking at the feasibility of a nuclear power station at Gansbaai, less than two hours drive away. No! No! No!
Granted we have an unlikely possibility of having an earthquake here unlike San Francisco, and the Pacific, or the Ring of Fire, but it can happen. We are not totally immune to the forces of nature.
I don't want to leave a legacy of nuclear danger to my family, friends, compatriots. Do you?
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