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Nuclear Whistleblower Bob Rowen:
Is Nuclear Energy a “Safe, Clean, and Economical” Alternative?
Like scores of others in the early sixties, Rowen embraced nuclear energy as the panacea to America’s emerging energy crisis, and he believed that becoming a nuclear control technician was a career opportunity of a lifetime. As a nuclear insider, however, Rowen learned the claims made by the nuclear power industry and government were totally false, and came to the conclusion that nuclear power is in no way safe, clean, or economical.Rowen will present his reasons for calling the Pacific Gas and Electric Company a “Corporate Criminal” and why nuclear energy is the most dangerous and lethal technology ever devised by man. He will demonstrate why the operators of nuclear facilities cannot be trusted, and their regulators cannot be relied upon to protect workers and the public from the ill effects of nuclear plant operation. “I know of no one who ever set out to become a whistleblower, leastwise me,” says Rowen. “It’s just that I witnessed too many radiation safety violations and cover-ups by PG&E and the AEC to stand idly by while PG&E and the government did whatever they ‘considered necessary’ to promote and protect a failed and dangerous technology.”
It is clear that nuclear power is unaffordable in every way. A reliance upon nuclear power impedes our efforts to develop and implement the production of electricity by safe, affordable, sustainable means, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
Robert Rowen: My Humboldt Diary: A True Story of Betrayal of the Public Trust, Nuclear Power at Humboldt Bay
http://peaceandjusticeonline.org/2011/05/19/nuclear-power-dangerous-dirty-expensive-20-key-facts/
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