Not a Happy 2011 for the Earth is it?

Music: Hans Zimmer “Time” Films: GreenPeaceVideo channel www.youtube.com Inspired by: Mother Earth, Green Peace International and a video by ThePhaedrus83. See it here: www.youtube.com Correction: The drawings were submitted by 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade students. Watch over the children and teach them well for they will inherit the Earth we leave behind today. Périmé (French): translation into English (Expired, Invalid); Spanish: (Caducado, No Válido). The first nuclear power station was built in1957, in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. There are over 100 operating nuclear power plants in America and 16 non-operational power plants, and a large number of nuclear fuel and weapons facilities. The more you know about these places, the more frightened you’ll be — and should be! www.animatedsoftware.com For example, just one exposed fuel rod can contaminate an entire 29000 mile radius. Nuclear energy is NOT clean energy, and neither is coal or ethanol. The creation of huge quantities of long-lived radioactive waste is the most enormous and horrifying problem facing the public and the nuclear power industry today. The difficulty of waste disposal was not considered to be a big problem during the time when power plants were first introduced; it was assumed that waste could be recycled or buried. Unfortunately, finding safe ways of storing radioactive wastes so that they do not leak radiation into the environment has proved to be a more difficult task than anticipated. WHAT …