NUCLEAR DEAL – LESS DISCUSSED CONCERNS By V.C. NANDA

The world is well aware of the risks inherent in reactor accidents. This is why nowhere, with the exception of France have any new reactors been set up in the last thirty years. Any possible rethinking must have been hastily put at rest by the disaster at Chernobyl, located in Russia – a developed nuclear technology country. The accident in the three mile island also in ‘developed’ U.S.A. appears to have been forgotten, as the place was uninhabited. But a public sector nuclear weapon plant near Denver in USA was closed in 1989 on orders of Environment Protection Agency (EPA) after discovery of radioactive leak. Thousands of workers are fighting the government for compensation and health care reimbursement. With the government taking advantage of cleverly worded legislation only some of them have thus for received help. A report in New York Times of June 13, 2007, mentioning that 67 of them have so far died has revived unpleasant memories. No wonder USA prefers gas based energy production to new nuclear reactors. Switzerland through a referendum has decided against nuclear reactors.
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