Fukushima's Deadly Legacy
On March 11, 2011, the world's greatest ever environmental disaster struck Fukushima. Weeks later, nuclear meltdown was confirmed.
Radioactive discharges can't be stopped. They continue out-of-control. They're uncontainable. Fukushima is an unprecedented catastrophe. It's reason enough to abolish nuclear power.
Helen Caldicott is clear and unequivocal. Enough nuclear explosions "would create nuclear winter, with the US covered with a cloud so thick that it would block out the sun for years, and that would be the end." Other nuclear experts agree.
In 1953, future physiology and medicine Nobel laureate George Wald told this student at the time and others "there's no such thing as safe nuclear power." He later said:
"If you were to read in the newspapers tomorrow that astronomers had a shocking piece of information for us. They had just found another star is going to collide with the sun and that would be curtains."
"We'd have eight months more to go and, finished - why - heavens above! You would put on your best clothes and go dancing in the streets - that's cosmic, that's fate. You could go out with dignity."
Dying from nuclear power, he added, "is so trivial. It's so ghastly ignoble as to be, I think, intolerable, altogether unacceptable."
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