The more technologically and academically advanced we become, the less aware and caring we seem to be. The more modern we get, the less the societies we live in remember who we are, the less the elderly and the children are cared for and the more the family and our neighbours grow apart.

Our elite minds at our prestigious UWI and other writers to this newspaper are entertaining the idea that nuclear power is the answer. Have we all gone absolutely mad? This argument is being used to defend and promote the use of nuclear power by people who, no doubt, are positioning themselves to benefit from such a horrendously dangerous venture.

Personal advancement

The quest for their personal advancement is paramount over the well-being of the earth and its inhabitants. Facts have proven that the process of building and maintaining nuclear plants, extracting and processing the uranium and the plutonium from the earth, is altogether more costly in terms of energy, creating a larger carbon footprint and global warming. This whole process is not worth the damage or the risks and the dangers of storing the by-products and waste material that come from this evil invention.

This nuclear age has created a carcinogenic age, causing all sorts of cancers like leukaemia, thyroid cancer, bone cancer, breast cancer and testicular cancer that only show up decades later. Nuclear power is death, disease and tragedy. Over time, babies will be drinking radioactive breast milk, children will be getting cancer by age five and more babies will be born deformed.

What will we do with all the radioactive waste? Uranium and plutonium have shelf lives of tens of thousands of years and its waste material lasts for half-a-million years. Radioactive waste has to be cooled for decades. Nuclear plants have to use vast amounts of water to cool their reactors, where does this water go?

This is no advancement for the future of the new age that is upon us.

I am etc.,

Nam Singh

namsingh7@hotmail.com

Florida, USA