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From: jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn )
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Subject: Re: Containment domes & Grapite Reactors: re to Stein
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 07:24:29 EDT
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         ...      There are 8 nuclear plants operated by the Dept.
> of Energy in order to make nuclear materials for nuclear weapons which
> have no containment domes.  These plants also are graphite core
> reactors exactly like the one at Chernobyl.
>  
> Caspar Weinberger has asked for expanded production of weapons-grade
> materials at these nuclear plants to fuel Reagan's nuclear arms race.
> For the first time in over a decade, the Reagan administration has
> begun making *more* weapons-grade nuclear material to fuel the arms
> race. (Previously material from old nuclear weapons systems was 
> transferred to newer nuclear weapons systems)
> Although Reagan is already deploying 3 nuclear warheads a day
> (or approximately 1000 nuclear warheads a year) Weinberger wants
> Congress to approve an increased capacity to over 2,000 nuclear warheads
> a year.
> This should tell us something about Reagan's sincerity about arms control.
> If he truly expected to achieve *reductions* in nuclear weapons then
> these dangerous nuclear plants could be shut down.  But rather than
> shutting them down, Reagan wants to *increase* their production 
> capacity by the 1990's.
>             tim sevener   whuxn!orb

I think this seems to be why there are so many folks arguing against nuclear
power.  They seem to believe that if they can outlaw reactors they can end
the arms race.  That argument would sound silly of course so they attack
on saftey issues.  They are effective at clouding the issue but the bottom
line is that nuclear powers track record speaks for itself.  Although we
can no longer say no member of the general public has died from
commercial reactor operations the number is still quite small.  Coal burning
is far and away the most destructive way to produce power.  These same people
are not banging their drums about coal burning.  

					Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around