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<H2 style="FONT-SIZE: 24px" class=main-headding-font><FONT color=#664b00>Nuclear power ‘monster,’ Bishop warns</FONT></H2>
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<DIV class="storys_nsbrief clear_doted_nsbrief normal-medium-font"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Those who say atomic energy is green and safe are liars, prelate says</SPAN></STRONG>
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<DIV class="top-border-stories font-orange"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Stephen Hong, Seoul</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: #696767; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>Korea<BR>May 18, 2011</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
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<DIV class=newsbriefimgcapt><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Bishop Peter Kang U-il (second right). Far right is Bishop Tetsuo Hiraga of Sendai Diocese (photo: Korean bishops' conference)
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Nuclear power is a monster which cannot coexist with living things, the president of the Korean bishops’ conference has warned, in an article urging the government to review its energy policy.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In the article for the conference-run monthly, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Kyeonghyang Magazine,</EM></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Bishop Peter Kang U-il of Cheju said it is “a lie” to say that nuclear power is a green or clean energy.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">He said a visit to tsunami-hit Saitama and Sendai dioceses in Japan last month to deliver aid, made him question whether nuclear power is really safe.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Everyone needs to pay attention to nuclear power as it could lead to a catastrophe, he said.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Citing Pope Benedict’s encyclical, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>Caritas in Veritate</EM></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">, he said: “Our natural environment is God’s gift to everyone, and we must take of it as we have a responsibility towards the poor, future generations and humanity as a whole.”</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Bishop Kang said the God-given right to rule the earth is not absolute.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“We must limit ourselves when it comes to nature,” he said, adding that nuclear power is beyond that limit.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Nuclear power is a potential “great disaster which can’t be controlled by any human technology,” he continued</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">He therefore urged people to reflect on society’s preoccupation with consumerism which has led to it consuming too much energy.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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11/05/18 Nuclear power ‘monster’, Bishop warns - Those who say atomic energy is green and safe are liars, prelate says..Stephen Hong, Seoul
