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Subject: Re: Nuclear power and the free market - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 00:15:00 EDT
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/***** uokvax:net.politics / ihopa!burris /  7:37 am  Apr 25, 1984 */
Let's not forget the possiblilty of a hydrogen explosion which could
rupture the containment building releasing the contents into the
environment.

Nuclear plants are in general very safe but the costs of even a
single catastrophe are too great to allow corporate interests to hold
precedence over safety issues.
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Asking for safe energy is rather like asking for dry water. In any
case, nuclear plants are far safer than other methods of producing
electricity.  (The number two accidental killer, next to automobile
accidents ("Yeah, but nobody forces me to drive a car!" Oh, but I'm a
pedestrian, and I'm forced to cross the streets that are full of bozos
who do drive...), is accidental falls, and one can just imagine all
those folks out there with rickety ladders reaching out just a hair
farther to clean off their collectors.) This includes, by the way,
opportunities for terrorism (you're much better off and safer blowing a
hole in a dam).

Environmental impact? Compare coal mining with uranium mining. (Also, look
again at the insolation constant and figure out how big an area would have
to be covered to generate as much electricity as the one that supplies
you with electricity--yes, indeedy, small is beautiful.)

						James Jones