Nuclear madness must stop
By Nwachukwu from Lagos
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Realism sometimes, to some people, is a fantasy world and it is often difficult to determine whether these people are in a true state of mental misalignment whereby one could easily attribute their actions to fantasy effects or whether they are thoroughly clever in shaping events within their environment in calculated moves to force hardship on the masses whom they have cleverly maneuvered to conditions of subservience for their own earthly and materialistic dispositions.

Whatever the basis for a misplaced sense of realism, the consequences become realistic in the confusion that will ensue, culminating in the perpetual suffering for the immediately impoverished masses and a postponed anguish for those languishing in the on-going deceit.
The existence of National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) electricity and the conceivable birth of nuclear contraptions into our midst throws one’s mind into an aching confusion as events become too unreal for clarity.

This write-up will be devoted purely to NEPA whilst atomic energy will serve as a stabilizing reference to realism in so far as its conceivability might expose the ineptitude (if that is the condition) inherent in the unviability of NEPA.

Let us first draw a small corollary to events that exist within the world of NEPA and atomic energy. For this, we shall crazily imagine the Americans as some self-proclaimed gods (a dual existence since they are really humans like all of us) who can force random changes within the earth’s peripheral enclosure but not quite able yet to split the earth-core into bits.

Hence, they can cause or force artificial earthquakes and storms and hope for the human individual movements and actions to follow their (American) desired directions. It has been impossible for them to achieve the latter. It is therefore rather difficult for us to imagine them able to blow the earth-core to smithereens and have the ability to control the ensuing events thereafter.

The atom, made up of its central core and the surrounding electron environ, represents the earth as above. Our knowledge so far, expressed in the meagre endeavours of NEPA, is still on the environ of the atomic periphery whilst that of the splitting of the atom conjures up what will happen if the Americans blasted the earth-core accidentally.

Since we in Nigeria are now thinking of the colossal task of splitting the atomic core before mastering the movements of the electrons around this core, one must wonder who is fooling whom. And so now, we shall seriously look at NEPA and survey the reasons why this seemingly simple task of electrons control seems to be beyond NEPA’s capability.
The above 7 paragraphs are extracts (introductory) from a Daily Times publication of December 15, 1981 entitled NEPA FIRST AND NUCLEAR POWER LATER, which was written by me then, 25years ago.

Now in the year 2008, we are in a worse condition regarding NEPA then. We have been hearing of the government’s intention to go into nuclear power generation for electricity.
The status on ground is that we do not have the capability to install and maintain a nuclear energy plant. We do not have the right staff caliber, exposure, experience, quality and quantity. The nuclear arena requires excellence, efficiency and secrecy. Secrecy embodies strong consciousness of its indigenousness, safety and security.

Go to Iran, Pakistan, India, North Korea, Japan, China etc,(not to mention USA, Russia, Germany etc) the nuclear actions being taken there are 100% indigenous. This ensures that the safety and security aspects are very maximally, patriotically and nationalistically embraced and tackled.
Nuclear power plants exist where there is excellent knowledge of the plant’s systems production and maintenance to ensure that radioactive possible leakages can be immediately controlled or prevented. We have not reached there yet.

Japanese nuclear power plant shut down as the water containing radioactive materials leaked from the reactor. A Russian region, Chernobyl, once went through hell as a result of radioactive leakages from their nuclear reactor. The Nigerian nuclear plant will be installed and maintained by non-indigenes and hence, the security and safety of the nation will be in their hands. This is crazy and dangerous and must therefore be stopped from taking off.

We proudly shout of our global links and interactions towards becoming one of the first ten greatest economic states in the world by the year 2020. This is of course laughable as the states we want to outpace are amongst those we cry to for assistance in our infrastructural build-up. They are quite comfortable with our myopic traits and they happily and smartly guide us away from our misplaced hopes.

We have various natural energy sources for conversion into electric energy. These include coal, crude oil, gas, water etc and we refuse to explore them intelligently and progressively for our own self-reliant national benefits.

This write-up is to implore the head of the Nigerian government to wake up to realities and address the safety and security matters of the black masses of this country and protect them from dehumanization and slavery traits.
Please, let nuclear energy hypnotism be de-energized to allow us glimpse and hope for a future.