Pools of Fire

CounterPunch by Jeffrey St. Clair | Aug. 10, 2008 (Special Report)
The Looming Nuclear Nightmare in the Backwoods of North Carolina

All this makes Shearon Harris a very inviting target for would-be terrorists. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has fingered Shearon Harris as one of the most vulnerable terrorist targets in the nation.

Potential atomic terrorists don't have to steal plutonium, take a crash course in physics, or concoct a bomb to manufacture a radiological nightmare scenario in the heart of the Carolinas. All they have to do is penetrate the security ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech, Health
Topics: Environment, Nuclear Weapons, Pollution, Energy, Science, Wellness
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 11, 2008 - 3:29 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

This excerpt from St. Clair's book takes one nuclear power plant and documents the many breakdowns, emergencies, and potential hazards beyond these that are the story of nuclear power. The documenting of these events and concerns is critically timely at a time when McCain is strongly advocating building large numbers of new reactors. The profits would be privatized and the risks would be socialized, so McCain and the big nuclear power corporations that would eat from the trough claim there is no danger. The voters need to educate themselves on the risks, since the military-industrial-media complex seem to be willfully denying the risks.

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