Mari Keski-Korsu - mkk http://www.artsufartsu.net 8.10.2011

When I was a teenager, I was a part of movement fighting against the fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. We won the battle at that time. The government didn't give permission to build the plant in 1993. Everything changed again in 2002 and the construction work for the fifth plant started in 2005. I and everyone else knew this was just an opening and there will be more plants as the permission is given. The rest of the Europe is giving up from nuclear power at the same time. Even more saddening news came out just couple of days ago: the sixth plant will be build in Pyhäjoki – just some 20 kilometers from town where I was born, spend my childhood and youth. I heard that people were opening champagne bottles and celebrating the victory: new jobs and prosperity the plant will bring to the whole area. I wish I could join their celebration. Our selfishness devastates me. Nothing is enough. I can't celebrate the nuclear waste left in the hands of the coming generations for thousands of years. I can't celebrate the risks of nuclear catastrophes. I can celebrate the uncertainty on how the cooling water affects the sea life. If someone would have said to me 18 years ago that there will be a nuclear power plant in our neighborhood in the next 25 years I would have never believed anyone is so crazy.
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