Nuclear Warning

After years of warnings, the loss of hundreds of lives and the abject misery suffered by thousands of families, the mining of asbestos was banned. Those politicians, in the Howard government and some in the Labour opposition, who are madly pushing to maintain and expand the mining of uranium require urgent psychiatric treatment. They are surely mad by refusing to learn from history.

The element uranium is the essential ingredient, not only for nuclear power, but also for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. The use of it has already accounted for hundreds of thousands of lives, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Chernobyl are prime examples, along with many others, of how dangerous uncontrolled nuclear energy can be.

Not one politician or nuclear scientist is prepared to assure us of complete and utter safety when using nuclear energy. New nuclear reactors will be experimental and prone to accidents. This is admitted by senior government ministers, who know, full well, teething problems will occur. There is no room for error, or second chances should nuclear energy get out of control.If it was so important to ban asbestos mining three decades ago, then it must be a hundred time more important to ban uranium today.