Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!fred From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Safety of nuclear submarines -- wastes Message-ID: <2212@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 08:25:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.2212 Posted: Wed Sep 18 08:25:45 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 09:21:43 EDT References: <1386@utcsri.UUCP> <5952@utzoo.UUCP> <820@water.UUCP> <793@lsuc.UUCP> <5960@utzoo.UUCP> <2182@mnetor.UUCP> <1681@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 28 Summary: In article <1681@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes: >You may state it, but that doesn't make it true. Chemical carcinogens >and mutagens damage humanity in the same way as do radioactive wastes >(not by the same mechanism), but unlike radioactive wastes, they don't >decay away very fast. They, too, will be around long after our countries >and our power industries are long forgotten. High-grade radioactive wastes >don't remain high-grade for too many centuries, although they do >remain dangerous. OK, I'll grant that radioactive materials are not the only problem. However, there are radioactive wastes that will still be deadly 100,000 years from now. That is quite a few centuries. >... It is *possible* >for a terrorist to blow up a nuclear plant with an atomic bomb, and thus >render many thousands of square miles uninhabitable. It is *possible* >that burning enough carbon might cause a runaway greenhouse effect, >rendering ALL life on earth impossible. > It is possible that the greenhouse effect will do that. But it is definate that if the nuclear waste that we've tucked away already were to leak and become evenly distributed around the earth, that all the higher life forms would perish, and that includes us! -- Cheers, Fred Williams, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!fred BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 318