John Thomas Ellis: Response to NYTimes Edit on Nuclear Power
John Thomas Ellis Kentfield, Ca. Yesterday
This particular editorial is a backhand to the face of it's readers. No sane human being can claim prudence and propose expanding the use of nuclear power, not while Fukushima has four reactors in full mettle-down. None are repaired in any significant way and they're leaking and belching limitless amounts of radiation without any kind of sarcophagus like the Russians have been trying to perfect over past thirty grueling years. Many brave people Soviets, Ukrainians and Russians continue to lose their lives and their health trying to contain the monstrous destruction of Chernobyl after it melted-down. Whole cities stand abandoned, miles of productive farmland stands ideal and the collective culture of the whole region was poisoned and rendered poisonous to life for tens of thousands of years.
This particular editorial is a backhand to the face of it's readers. No sane human being can claim prudence and propose expanding the use of nuclear power, not while Fukushima has four reactors in full mettle-down. None are repaired in any significant way and they're leaking and belching limitless amounts of radiation without any kind of sarcophagus like the Russians have been trying to perfect over past thirty grueling years. Many brave people Soviets, Ukrainians and Russians continue to lose their lives and their health trying to contain the monstrous destruction of Chernobyl after it melted-down. Whole cities stand abandoned, miles of productive farmland stands ideal and the collective culture of the whole region was poisoned and rendered poisonous to life for tens of thousands of years.
To me this editorial is nothing more than a bought and paid proposition meant to make readers whine, holler and yell at each other. It makes me sick in a sad sort of way, when a newspaper of record succumbs to industry hacks and become shills that contradicts the evidence collected by their own investigative reporters, staff writers and columnists to write an editorial that is a patent insult to the intelligence of the American newspaper reading public. I think it shows bad judgement on the behalf of everyone in a senior management at the New York Times. The Times has abdicated their responsibility to maintain an informed electorate.