Go Nuclear, Go Nowhere.
The nuclear industry and its political cheerleaders are barking so loudly over tried and tested reality, that I feel it’s important for people to have information with which to contradict them. It’s not a political issue, it’s common sense.
In his final paper, ‘A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation,’ Hawking claimed that parallel universes could be potentially detected in the cosmic microwave background of the Big Bang, making them subject to the laws of physics, rather than just theoretical possibilities. He knew believability was important. Unlike McConnell, Miliband, and their new nuclear golden age.
Imagine a pro-nuclear earth where everything that can go wrong has gone wrong: cyber terrorist attacks on power stations, infrastructure failure, catastrophic environmental disaster caused by the effects of global warming, radiation leaks, core meltdowns, large scale fallout, widespread contamination, mutual nuclear annihilation, an uninhabitable earth.
By the same token, a parallel universe also exists where this will never happen. An earth where people decide against a risky, costly, and unpredictable programme of nuclear technology. Where society puts aside those ideas on the basis that just because you could, doesn’t mean you definitely should. A world where people focus instead on expanding renewables. Where governments, whatever their systems, expend valuable public money on healthcare, education, equality, the restoration of biodiversity…