It is really heart-warming that at least one nation has drawn a lesson from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to shut down all nuclear power stations in Germany by the year 2022 is praiseworthy. Shouldn’t Dr. Manmohan Singh also see the writing on the wall – that when a nuclear power plant goes awry, it becomes a potential weapon of mass destruction? Aren’t we living in fool’s paradise that we possess state-of-the-art technology which will never allow a nuclear accident to happen? Is it not the time we started scientific explorations for safe alternative energy sources?
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.