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From: mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Nuclear power vs Coal vs Alternatives
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 23:18:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 23:18:28 1986
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In article <524@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) writes:
>[Michael Stein]
>>A problem the "soft energy" advocates have is that they confuse the
>>seperate issues of nuclear proliferation and nuclear power.  
>
>What they do is point out the connections between the two issues.
>How do you think India got its bomb?  It is absurd to claim there is
>no connection between nuclear power and the proliferation of nuclear
>weapons.

Actually India is a good example of exactly what I am saying.  India
used reasearch reactors to produce its plutonium.  Using research
reactors is many, many times easier then using the spent fuel from an
operating nuclear power plant.  This is also what Iraq was trying to
do when Israel bombed their research reactor.  Again, this has little
connection with nuclear power generation for electricity.
-- 
Michael V. Stein
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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