We Need More of Those Lovely Nuclear Power Plants - Mark Steel - The Independent

Got a hoot out of this somewhat old piece...

We Need More of Those Lovely Nuclear Power Plants - Mark Steel - The Independent

"Of all the attempts made by Madonna and Anthea Turner to reinvent their image, none have been as outlandish as the nuclear industry's effort to rebrand itself as a green project for a healthy environment. One spokesman responded to Tony Blair's speech on global warming by suggesting the answer is to build 45 new nuclear power stations.

Soon the chairman of British Nuclear Fuels will appear on the news with straggly hair covered in mud, saying, 'Yeah like the planet is our mother, man, and I'm healing her by living off fallen berries and building a thermo-nuclear power plant. That's why I'm, like, handcuffed to this plutonium rod, and the cops will never pull it down, 'cos radiation's like our sister, man.' "

We Need More of Those Lovely Nuclear Power Plants - Mark Steel - The Independent

Got a hoot out of this somewhat old piece...

We Need More of Those Lovely Nuclear Power Plants - Mark Steel - The Independent

"Of all the attempts made by Madonna and Anthea Turner to reinvent their image, none have been as outlandish as the nuclear industry's effort to rebrand itself as a green project for a healthy environment. One spokesman responded to Tony Blair's speech on global warming by suggesting the answer is to build 45 new nuclear power stations.

Soon the chairman of British Nuclear Fuels will appear on the news with straggly hair covered in mud, saying, 'Yeah like the planet is our mother, man, and I'm healing her by living off fallen berries and building a thermo-nuclear power plant. That's why I'm, like, handcuffed to this plutonium rod, and the cops will never pull it down, 'cos radiation's like our sister, man.' "