--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> >
> > At 00:51 4-7-01 +0100, Andy Crystall wrote:
> >
> > >Now look at the cancer rates arround a COAL fired
> power station..
> > >over EIGHT times, in some cases, the national
> average. And that's
> > >before we consider the CO� and other pollutants
> it spews...
> >
> > Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. I don't know --
> I don't have the data.
> >
> > Your statement looks like that old tactic: tone
> down a problem by pointing
> > at an other, bigger problem. But that's not gonna
> work -- not on this list.
> >
> > The issue here is whether or not nuclear power
> plants are safe. Pointing at
> > conventional power plants and say "the cancer
> rates around those are MUCH
> > higher than around nuclear plants" does not proof
> that nuclear power plants
> > are safe. It only points out that nuclear plants
> aren't the *only* problem.
>
> Jeroen, if the risk of cancer is so high around
> nuclear power plants, would
> there be _any_ live ex-submariners? I spent _years_
> of my life within 100 ft.
> of the core of a nuke power plant. I have been in
> contact with many of my
> shipmates and I know of none that have died of
> cancer. Now that's just
> anecdotal stuff, but it's pretty convincing to me.
> I would think that if
> submariners were dying of cancer at a rate above
> normal that it would be the
> subject of a lot of publicity and fodder for
> anti-nukes everywhere.
>
> Doug
Same with me and all of my old friends. Tens of
thousands of sailors have also been on carriers and
our few cruisers for years at a time. The Navy told
me my dose when I got out, I asked a friend of mine
who was an ELT how it compared with the average
person's dose. He said that surfers get a
significantly higher dose in the same amount of time.
Mine was about average for working in the engine room.
When I was in nuclear power school, there were
protesters standing outside the gate with the average
anti-nuke signs. When we would walk offbase to get a
burger or something, many of us would talk to them.
They stopped coming after a short while, I think they
felt silly.
dean
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