Chernobyl Reminds Us That Nukes Are Not Green - Huff Post

Chernobyl Reminds Us That Nukes Are Not Green
by Harvey Wasserman
at Huffington Post
28 April 2007

Twenty-one years ago this week, lethal radiation poured into the breezes over Europe and into the jet stream above, carrying death and disease around the planet.

It could be happening again as you read this: either by error, as at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, or by terror, as could have happened on September 11, 2001.

Those who now advocate a "rebirth" of this failed technology forget what happened during these "impossible" catastrophes, or refuse to face their apocalyptic reality, both ecological and financial.

Radiation monitors in Sweden, hundreds of miles away, first detected the fallout from the blast at Chernobyl Unit 4. The reactor complex had just been extolled in the Soviet press as the ultimate triumph of a "new generation" in atomic technology.

...........SNIP"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/chernobyl-reminds-us-that_b_47146.html

We cannot forget that the waste from all reactors sit there (underground perhaps) FOREVER. Even a plastic bag will disintegrate in 1000 years.