We Are Being Nuked With False Information on Atomic Energy

(Image: Chelsea Green Publishing)According to nuclear energy debunker Gar Smith, if we want the truth about nuclear energy, we won't be getting it from governments. That's a key message in Smith's new book,"Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth." You can learn more by reading "Nuclear Roulette." Receive a copy from Truthout with a minimum contribution. Just click here.

Below is an excerpt, Chapter 16, from Smith's wake-up call about "the most dangerous energy source on earth."

"Run! Run as fast as you can. Don't believe the government. The government will lie to you."

—Natalia Mironova, Russian nuclear engineer and Chernobyl "liquidator"

One consistent lesson from Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima is clear: when the public is at risk, plant operators and government officials inevitably cover up and lie. "They lied to us," physicist Michio Kaku memorably told CNN on June 22, 2011. "TEPCO isn't in cold shutdown and won't be for another year. And, if there's another quake, it could start all over again." Behind the official reassurances from Tokyo, full meltdowns were under way at three of the six reactors, 600,000 spent fuel rods were at risk of burning off into the atmosphere, and the fallout burdens turned out to be 10 times greater than officially reported. Plutonium rained down 28 miles from the plant and strontium-90 turned up 155 miles away–well outside the official 12.5-mile "evacuation zone."