Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World

Just as Ralph Nader (himself a longtime anti-nuclear leader) wrote about GM's Corvair as being "Unsafe at Any Speed" for its passengers and those in passing cars, Karl Grossman (pictured left) warns about nuclear power -- unsafe on any planet near you! Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, and host of the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up, as well as a board member of Beyond Nuclear, has posted "Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World" at OpEdNews.com. In it, he looks to near-misses like the Fermi 1 "We Almost Lost Detroit" partial meltdown in 1966 and the 1979 Three Mile Island partial meltdown,  as well as the 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophes -- underscored by the current Missouri River flooding and Los Alamos wildfires -- to call for the abolition of atomic energy and its inevitable risks.