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Subject: Re: A reply to Hall/Taylor on nuclear power
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 12:46:38 EST
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The original article by  Jon White  quotes a physicist at Cornell
who claims that the tailings from uranium processing  pose a health
problem.  But the tailings are nothing but the original ore which
has not been chemically or nuclearly altered.  Thus, any health
effects from that ore would be no different from the ore lying
in the ground with the exception of dredging it up, grinding it
into pieces and re-burying it.  I don't feel that that is obviously
dangerous.  Merely quoting someone who thinks it is dangerous doesn't
convince me that it is dangerous, either.

I suspect that Jon White himself doesn't understand the physics
of nuclear power, or any physics at all.  That's perhaps why
he offers quotes of others which don't make too much sense.