".... so was Chernobyl" -- Contessa Brewer on MSNBC

[Flaxbee]

to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Hutchison mentioned that the BP accident was a statistical anomaly (part of her argument to resume deep water drilling). Brewer said "Well, so was Chernobyl".

And that brings us to a huge, very important point: we cannot trust any regulatory body in this country to do its job; we can't trust any industry run for profit to not cut corners if doing so will save money / boost the bottom line and make shareholders happy.

Are we really comfortable having nuclear power plants? One "statistical anomaly" in this country could wipe out multiple states for untold thousands of years. Please, take a moment to imagine what would happen if a similar chain of f*ckups that happened on the Deepwater Horizon rig occurred at a nuke plant. And don't tell me it couldn't happen.

We are absolute fools to think we can safely use nuclear power. The rest of the world joins us in this idiocy. There is acceptable risk, and then there is unacceptable risk, and nuclear power falls very squarely into the unacceptable risk category.