Sunday, February 19, 2006

I wanted to expand on "freddy four fingers" post about russia and the enviroment. For years russia has been terrible at dealing with nuclear waste. Much of this was due too the fact that everything was done in secrecy during the communist regism. Now Russia has again made headlines with the Idea of importing nuclear waste from western nations. They say that they will dispose of 20,000 tonnes of nuclear wast for 20 billion US dollars. Russia accounts for a majority of nuclear disasters in the world. Where the Russians want to "dispose" of the nuclear waste is already argueably the most nuclear polluted place in the world. Nuclear pollution will not stay in Russia, it will spread eventually via the atmosphere around the world. So we have to stop and ask ourselves if we want to give more nuclear waste to the country responsible for Chernobyl and of course Godzilla! An

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