Reminder: John Holdren: "The most important environmental liability of nuclear fission is..."

[bananas]

"The most important environmental liability of
nuclear fission is neither the routine nor accidental emissions
of radioactivity, but the deliberate misuse of nuclear facilities
and materials for acts of terrorism and war."

- John Holdren, Assessing Environmental Risks of Energy

John Holdren is President Obama's science advisor.
Despite the million-year waste disposal problem,
the mining, milling, and tailings,
the meltdowns, leaks, and venting,
nuclear weapons are still the most important environmental problem with nuclear energy.


Posted previously here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x288741

and with a link to the source here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x268872

and maybe posted a few other times as well.


It's an important reminder, which apparently needs to be reposted frequently.

[Downwinder]

1. What is the greater threat N. Korea nukes

or Fukushima?

[caraher]

2. Is this supposed to be a trick question?

I feel like you consider one choice to be obvious, but I'm not sure which one.

[Downwinder]

3. Nor am I.

[PamW]

4. Can you say HYPOCRISY???

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Holdren's statement is certainly out of step with his boss's policies.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Questioning-Obama-s-nuclear-agenda-3329783.php

While most federal agencies are being placed on an austerity diet, the Obama administration's 2013 budget for nuclear weapons activities is more than last year's appropriation and 20 percent higher than President Reagan's largest nuclear weapons budget at the height of the Cold War, adjusted for inflation. If fully funded, Obama's budget will be the biggest nuclear weapons budget in our nation's history.

Actually, the Obama Administration is being smart. While the Obama Administration provides the needed funding for the USA's strategic nuclear deterrent; you have your science adviser throw out little trite remarks like the one quoted in the original post in order to keep the anti-nuclear base happy.

Some people are so easily pleased / placated, by just a statement from a subordinate official.

PamW