Climate of Fear, Ignorance and Lies

The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) has recently produced a very slick, and highly dishonest video account of the nuclear power industry. The video, inaccurately titled "Climate of Hope," include claims that the use of DU weapons has lead to cancer deaths, an unsubstantiated assertion. Power reactors are characterized as being modified versions of plutonium producing military reactors, and spent nuclear fuel is portrayed as a source of weapons quality plutonium. The video grossly exaggerated claims about minor nuclear plant incidents, turning them into near nuclear meltdown. Nuclear power is characterized by Chernobyl and three Mile Island. Nuclear safety advances are, of course, ignored, as is the safety record of the nuclear industry during the last two decades. The problem of nuclear waste is treated as if it is it is an unsolvable problem. The absurd claim that nuclear power will eventually lead to carbon emissions equivalent to fossil fuel plants is advanced. The environmentally unsound of biomass is touted as a large scale energy source, and CO2 emitting Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facilities are treated as if they are a carbon free alternative to nuclear power.

The potentials of renewable energy sources is greatly exaggerated, and their problems are minimized or ignored. The necessity of burning massive amounts CO2 emitting natural gas along with solar and wind generation is ignored, as is problems of geothermal energy, such is the triggering of earthquakes, and the release of large amounts of radioactive gasses, generated the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium deep within the earth.

Once more the anti-nuclear cult relies on lie, misinformation and one sided presentations of facts to make its case. The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia gives not the slightest hint of how this very high quality video was paid for, but its relative tolerance of of burning fossil fuels, betrayed my its advocacy of fossil fuel based CHP might be an indication. Australian coal interests are bitterly opposed to nuclear power and undoubtedly stand ready to back anti-nuclear propaganda from any source.

Update: My first attempt to link to the video was not successful. Lets hop that the You Tube links work better.