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Turkey in the Straw

Posted on April 03, 2008

Bianet, a Turkish news outlet that publishes in English, reports that the Global Action Group, among them many well-known singers, actors and intellectuals, are not too happy that Turkey is considering building a nuclear energy plant. Here are their complaints. Take a deep breath; you've heard it all before. Every nuclear power plant creates waste, and no country has yet to find a satisfactory solution for that waste. It represents an ecological problem, whether it be buried or thrown into the sea. Nuclear power plants are dangerous. Like everywhere else, people in Turkey still reme...

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