All Shook up

Nuclear power (or nuclear anything) is a bit foreign to us Kiwis. Even the mare talk of the stuff creates a bit of rif-raf. On Monday an earthquake shook Japan, doing a lot of damage, including infrastructure and sadly, loss of life. As Jim Rice states in this article, it also woke us up to dangers of Nuclear matter. The biggest plant and probably one of the most sophisticated, managed to create an environmental disaster, with over 300 gallons of nuclear goo spilling.

This highlights, nuclear power or weaponry etc is not fool proof, or natural disaster proof. What can go wrong, will go wrong. We cant just hope for the best and make sure there is a safety kit on every wall in the plant. It just wont be enough, it wont save us. The risks are too great when it comes to Nuclear stuff.

(there is also a link to the article "Is Nuclear the Answer?" in the above article)