ATTENTION AUSTRALIA


......PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA WILL BE INUNDATED IN THE COMING MONTHS BY SOME HIGH PRICED MEDIA HYPE FROM THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY......PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF THE ENVIRONMENT DO NOT LET THEM BAMBOOZLE YOU INTO THINKING THAT NUCLEAR IS A CLEAN SOURCE OF ELECTRIC POWER.......IT IS NOT . . .THE LIFE CYCLE OF NUCLEAR REACTORS EMITS HUGE AMOUNTS OF POLLUTION INTO THE AIR,LAND AND WATER...JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE A URANIUM MINE(REMOTE LOCATION) DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NON POLLUTING...FOR EXAMPLE THE RECENT APPROVAL OF THE BEVERLY MINE SITE HAS URANIUM ORE 600FEET TO 700FEET BELOW GROUND LEVEL....OPEN PIT MINING WILL BE USED FOR EXTRACTION...THIS IS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE METHOD TO THE ENVIRONMENT....LARGE GARGANTUAN TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT ALONE WILL PRODUCE TONNES OF GREENHOUSE GAS (CO2) FROM DIESEL AND ENGINES...ALL TOPSOIL HAS TO BE BULLDOZED AWAY IN ORDER TO GET THE URANIUM ORE A DEPTH OF , , , , , 650 FEET . . . . .STRONG CHEMICALS ARE USED TO SEPERATE THE ORE AND MOUNTAINS OF RADIOACTIVE DIRT WILL REMAIN LONG AFTER THE MINE IS DEPLETED AND ABANDONED....THIS IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE BIG PICTURE THAT THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WILL DOWNPLAY....THIS BLOG YOU ARE VIEW HAS MANY REFERENCES TO NUCLEAR ........PLEASE FEEL FREE TO USE THE SEARCH ENGINE SPACE AT THE TOP LEFT OF THIS SITE.SIMPLY TYPE IN THE WORD "NUCLEAR" AND ALL THE ARCHIVE DATA WILL APPEAR .

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