Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!morrison From: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: The Safest Way Message-ID: <10@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 14:52:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.10 Posted: Tue Sep 17 14:52:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 15:47:14 EDT References: <1386@utcsri.UUCP> <5952@utzoo.UUCP> <820@water.UUCP> <793@lsuc.UUCP> <5960@utzoo.UUCP> <4@ubc-cs.UUCP> <41@utecfc.UUCP> Reply-To: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 18 Summary: In article <41@utecfc.UUCP> dennis@utecfc.UUCP (Dennis Ferguson) writes: >... it seems reasonable that, rather than concentrating our efforts >on nuclear power plants to begin with, we should start with the radioactive >source which you, and I (and I live pretty close to Pickering Nuclear G.S.) >and just about everyone else in the world >receives the lion's share of their yearly dose of radiation from. > >The sun. This is the same tired old straw man argument of the pro-nukes. The issue is not the admittedly small amount of radiation that nuclear plants give off as a result of simply running. The issue is the effect of introducing radioactive *material*, either through plant spills or leakage from waste storage, into the food and water we consume. The sun may be a potent source of radiation. It certainly is not a source of plutonium in my skim milk.