Alfred Cool

Credibility and connection -- I don't need to elaborate, do I?

Canada, Russia, and Australia are the world's worst nuclear polluters, and things have only been getting worse. "THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH" -- in 1975, I returned from the Costa del Sol broke and tanned, and needing a summer job to pay for Journalism classes. I found a job in Port Radium, NWT, at what I thought was a silver mine but which turned out to be a Uranium mine -- a dirty, dangerous site. Canada was and still does sell itself as a "clean" nuclear retailer and we still spread the poison on a global scale. What I saw at Port Radium was far different from Canada's mirage of smooth, techno-propaganda. So, I published "THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH" because uranium is dangerous: mining it, using processing it, using it, disposing of it. Creating nuclear power is by far the most expensive and inefficient use of resources in the world and the waste it generates is the worst polluting outrage on the planet. The impact of that time in my life lives with me still, and I write about things I know ...