17/08 2007: Nuclear Activity, Policy 116.43
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05/12 2007: Nuclear Activity
Jerry Lee questions the good use of nuclear activity based on nuclear fission. He believes that nuclear activity, whether this is for civil or military use, has given the World nothing but headaches. He concedes that the Atomic bomb put an end to World War II, that nuclear weapons played an important role in maintaining peace through fear, but that the argument of nuclear disuasion is losing steam with more nuclear powers emerging. Both Dresden and Hiroshima have shown human's darkest side in times of war: the target of civil populations. Jerry Lee believes that we cannot continue producing nuclear energy and piling up nuclear weapons without obviously increasing the risks, first, of contamination through radioactivity and, second, of military use through conflicts. Without entering into a debate of economic-efficiency, which arguably may support the need for nuclear energy, Jerry Lee expresses a strong recommendation that nuclear activity be reduced only to an experimental level to minimize the impact and threat on the environment. As such, Jerry Lee supports organisations such as the CERN in Geneva, which investigates nuclear particles, or Tera-10 laboratories in France, which allow computerised simulation of nuclear chain-reactions. Unfortunately, experiments are too often for military use only. And therefore, Jerry Lee recommends not only a reduction of nuclear activity to laboratory level, but also a verifiable nuclear disarmament of all nations in the world. It is worth mentioning that the principle of global nuclear disarmament is included in the Non-Proliferation-Treaty (NPT), which all signatories have agreed on. So Jerry Lee condemns the use of nuclear energy and the logic of military build-up, whether it be nuclear or conventional, which, really, leads to nowhere. Nuclear activity on a laboratory-level should only have one purpose: to find sources of energy that are safe, renewable - meaning environmentally very sustainable - and cheap, very cheap. With 'safe' is meant that a given source of energy poses no threat to people's health, and respects the environment in every aspect. |





