Posted on 03/17/2011 1:45:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan set to air tonight, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said the expanding threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Japan has changed his thinking on the safety of nuclear power. “It certainly caused me to reconsider the projects of building civil nuclear power plants,” Netanyahu said. “I have to tell you I was a lot more enthusiastic about it than I am now.”
Netanyahu, whose conversation with Morgan touches on Israel, Palestine, the spread of uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, said what’s happening in Japan is a “confluence of a natural disaster and a man-made disaster. And the cloud of radioactivity, the uncertainty of what will happen with it, is the cloud that hangs over the people of Japan, and the people of the world.”
Netanyahu said natural gas may give Israel an alternative to nuclear:
“Are you saying you might actually stop any kind of nuclear program in Israel,” asked Morgan. “I don’t think we’re going to pursue civil nuclear energy in the coming years,
The full interview airs on Piers Morgan Tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Watch the clip here, from CNN:
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... and then Helen Thomas would do cartwheels, hopefully not wearing a sun dress.
Relocate ‘em to Gaza. Do the cooling facilities last.
So don’t build a 40 year old plant on a faultline.
Be interesting to know how many people have died in natural gas explosions vs Nuke accidents vs. black lung/coal mining accidents.
“So don’t build a 40 year old plant on a faultline.”
Why would you build a 40 year old plant, at all?
I like to build new stuff. ;-)
That’s like saying that some people were injured using an electric drill therefor I’ll never own one.
“If the Israeli nuclear reactor ever faulted like Fukushima and the alarm went out to evacuate all civilians within 50km, that’s pretty much telling every citizen in Israel to find a new country to emigrate to.”
As I remember Dimona back in 79, there wasn’t much that lived anywhere near the plant.
He's a ignorant fool. The Japanese plants at risk are generations old. Nuclear technology has moved well beyond and has designs which do not depend on external power and water cooling.
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