DEEP March/April 2014 Green Issue | Page 31

One must be willing to climb higher in order to see farther. Only then will he be able to think better than those who passed this way prior. The now mothballed San Onofre Nuclear Electric Power generation station. I always disagreed with the logic and saw the irony in putting a potential large scale nuclear disaster right next door to Camp Pendleton, a key military base for the US. One of my favorite riddles is about what nuclear plants produce. They produce Du, depleted uranium , which is used in Du rounds and missile warheads for its density and superior penetrating power. When you see the US use these weapons it is employing a philosophy called Iron Imperialism. It destroys the civil populace within a war zone. Du rounds contaminate the ecosystems and have a long term adverse affect on the civil populace.