----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Nukes found with reactor vessel woes-NRC
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 5:31 PM > Subject: Re: Nukes found with reactor vessel woes-NRC > > > > Dan wrote: > > >... Given that excellent safety record, why are you singling out nuclear > > >power? What not stop the construction of buildings, the driving of > > >automobiles, the running of factories, etc? All have had a higher death > > >rate than nuclear power. "This issue of radioactive pollution--from nuclear testing fallout, from the routine emmissions of nuclear (commercial or military) reactors, from the billions of tons of uranium tailings left exposed at sites around the globe, from the massive amounts of low level and high level radioactive waste generated every year for decades from hundreds of commerical, military and research reactors around the globe--far from being the "passe" story the industry's PR hacks and media assets constantly present it as, is the number-one problem our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, ad infinitum, will have to deal with for at least the next 240,000 years. The damage to the integrity of the gene pool is still being assessed as well as increased. And all this has happened in less than the past fifty years. The challenge is paramount. Denial promises extinction of all our relations." http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/RB89.html We haven't determined the effects (yet) of Depleted Uranium: "In May, 1997, the International Action Center published a book of essays and lectures on depleted uranium: the contamination of the planet by the United States military. In addition to exposing the deadly duplicity of the Department of Defense, the book documents the genocide of Native Americans and Iraqis by military radiation, the connection between depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, the underestimated dangers from low-level radiation, the legal ramifications of DU Production and Use, and the growing movement against DU." http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/mettoc.htm > > Reggie wrote: > > > And that's coming from someone who's job is in the Texas Oil Patch. > > Dan replied: > > > That's a fact, Jack. :-) ...and I'm not partial to nuclear alarmism, Oil is also a problem: "Journey to the South American nation of Ecuador and you find pollution and misery on a scale that never would be tolerated in California, a state that guards its own majestic coastline from oil development and is home to some of the toughest environmental laws on Earth. Follow that oil as it leaves Ecuador and you find that between 20 and 40 million barrels a year flow to California, which consumes more gasoline - 38 million gallons a day - than Florida and New York combined." http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/denial/c1_1.html Cheers! -- Han Tacoma ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
