Nuclear hoax

Nuclear hoax

From Bisnis Indonesia

In January 1986, the Indonesia Foundation published an interesting book which contained critical and fundamental opinions on modern human civilization. Succinctly titled Trapped, the book asked the fundamental questions politicians don't like to deal with.

I wish to draw attention to chapter six, Nuclear energy: Big hoax. After reading this chapter I wondered whether the promoter of the nuclear power plant in Indonesia, together with its enthusiastic supporters, welcome the "new era of sophisticated technology" of the nuclear science. Or if those people who know the problem were indifferent and voluntarily got into the trap of the "big hoax" which had been propagated by the "technocrats" of the First World.

Concerning the big hoax, Goldsmith took as an example the Chernobyl catastrophe. He picked up the conclusion made by Allan Yaroschinskaya, a deputy of Soviet Supreme Council and a member of the investigation body of the Chernobyl disaster: "The lies behind the Chernobyl case are as terrible as the disaster itself."

The Chief of French Nuclear Society which was supported by the Indonesian nuclear group stated that the Chernobyl disaster only claimed 31 people with a few hundred others being treated in hospital. The increasing cases of cancer among children in Balarus, by 24 times as reported by WHO, the thousands of people who died after the event, and the increasing number of miscarriage cases in Norway are all thought to have been linked to radiation from the Chernobyl reactor.

ANDREAS JEWINARTO

Jakarta