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January 29, 2008

Oregon Was Right to Close Trojan

We can never fully shield ourselves from the dangers posed by human nature and human error; hence, I wholeheartedly believe that nuclear power development has been a grave mistake that may ultimately wipe out life on this planet. As Canada is learning (read more about it here), all the standards and safeguards in the world can't stop people who feel they have good motives from taking enormous risks that endanger us all.

The former head of the Nuclear Safety Commission has told a Commons committee that the Chalk River reactor posed a safety risk one-thousand times greater than international standards when it was shut down last month.

Linda Keen, who was fired by the Harper government, says she was simply acting according to the law when she refused to restart the reactor to deal with a shortage of medical isotopes.

Parliament voted unanimously to override the safety regulator's objections and the reactor was restarted December 16th.

We should never have developed so dangerous a tool. Humans simply are not trustworthy enough to handle it.

Posted by Becky at January 29, 2008 01:53 PM