Russia is desperately fighting forest fires(Global Warming?)to stop them attacking nuclear sites and now Chernobyl is threatening to unleash radioactive dust in the smoke.
There are now some 438 commercial nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries(61 new reactors under construction), 56 countries operate a total of about 250 research reactors and a further 220 nuclear reactors power ships and submarines.
Some countries have built reactors on fault lines prone to earthquakes(Japan) or plan to build on volcanoes(Indonesia).
The USA has over 100 reactors and it's wars of aggression in the Middle East and beyond may radicalize those targeted to seek revenge. In July 2000, two out of four war-games(Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation(OSRE)in Farley)to simulate protection of US nuclear facilities failed totally, with the third also failing. Don't forget on the 7th February 1993, an intruder entered Three Mile Island nuclear plant and damaged it.
The list of military nuclear accidents is long and often covered up(USA warship in Tokyo Bay).
So how safe is it to have these technologies? We all witnesses the world's richest advanced nation sit back helplessly, while one of the world's richest companies, allowed oil to flow freely for 3 months and destroy the Gulf of Mexico. How about nuclear accidents guys? Prepared?
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