| Many are the lies that have been told to you | | | | And, what about the fuel? |
| concerning nuclear power. | | | | Yes, exactly, what about the fuel? |
| As we say in Italian: “Lies have short legs” | | | | Obviously the fuel needed to activate a reactor is |
| meaning that they cannot go far away, this is | | | | not found at the supermarket round the corner. |
| exactly the case of all the lies spread out in the | | | | Once found, it’s not ready to be used yet, |
| past 20 years or so about nuclear power. | | | | needs some special (meaning EXPENSIVE) |
| It’s time to fight these lies without any | | | | treatment and after use becomes waste. And |
| mercy, the same way they were ruthlessly | | | | what a waste! |
| thrown to us. | | | | Unlike a banana skin which is depleted in a very |
| It’s common to think that nuclear energy is | | | | short time without leaving any danger into the |
| one of the cheapest energy sources available. | | | | environment, the waste of a reactor is |
| This is the biggest lie ever, in fact if you count | | | | dangerous for more than a hundred years to |
| what it takes to produce 1 kW of electricity, it's | | | | come if we are talking about low level waste |
| not cheap at all. I won’t go very deep into | | | | and more than a thousand if it’s high level |
| the price details for now. | | | | waste. Yes, you are right, this means more |
| I only want you to consider what is needed to | | | | money to spend trying to hide this waste in |
| produce electricity from this source. | | | | some secure place in order not to poison us in |
| First of all we need a power plant. | | | | any way, hopefully! |
| There are actually several classifications for | | | | How possibly may it be cheap and safe as |
| power plants that exploit nuclear energy, | | | | someone dare say? |
| depending on the type of reactor they use, but | | | | Exploiting nuclear energy for electricity purposes is |
| to make things easy we’ll classify them by | | | | a very dangerous choice that accident after |
| generations. | | | | accident, disaster after disaster, has |
| Five are the generations of reactors, the fourth | | | | demonstrated not only its inconvenience but also |
| of which is still under development and the fifth | | | | its uselessness. |
| has been considered only theoretically. | | | | Of course we are aware of a really small |
| Nuclear power plants, apart from the generation | | | | percentage of nuclear accidents and that’s |
| of the reactor they use, are one of the most | | | | why we all think it’s the safest resource, but |
| sophisticated, dangerous and complex energy | | | | let me tell you that in the past 50 years countless |
| systems ever designed to boil water to generate | | | | accidents have occurred all across the world killing, |
| electricity. | | | | poisoning and damaging people as well as the |
| Several are the security systems and extensive | | | | environment. |
| backups used in a nuclear power plant to avoid | | | | You don’t have to take my word as it is, |
| accidents (I’m only talking about the reactor | | | | just put in the search box of your favorite |
| itself now) and each reactor needs about a | | | | browser some keywords such as “nuclear |
| thousand people to make it work smoothly. | | | | accidents”, “civilian nuclear accidents” |
| As you know, big and complicated things that | | | | or “nuclear disasters” and you’ll be |
| require a lot of specialized personnel are also very | | | | shocked of what will come out. |
| expensive to maintain. | | | | It’s very interesting to see that only in the |
| Do you think that the construction of such a | | | | past 20 years most of the accidents have |
| structure is cheap? | | | | occurred in Europe and in the States. |
| No, it’s not. | | | | If after this you still think that this is safe and |
| Building and running a nuclear power plant is not | | | | cheap energy you should start questioning |
| cheap at all. So, how is it possible to consider the | | | | yourself about many things in life. |
| energy it produces the cheapest? | | | | |