Re: W. on the Environment

[Alberto Monteiro]

Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
> 
> Of course I'm serious. After all, you claim that the 
> radiation risk from me is greater than the radiation 
> risk from nuclear power. 
>
That's not what he claimed. He claimed that the
radiation *output* from you was greater than the radiation
*output* from a nuclear power plant.

> If the radiation risk from nuclear power is so much less, 
> then why are the safety measures so extremely more strict? 
> Logic dictates that higher risk requires more 
> safety measures, not less.
> 
The inverse is true: since the safety measures are extremely
strict, then the output radiation is very small

Alberto Monteiro - but I am *very* biased these days...