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From: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The Safest Way
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 14:37:42 EDT
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Reply-To: morrison@ubc-cs.UUCP (Rick Morrison)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

It has been said in this forum that:

>The combustion of Coal (mainly for the generation of power) in the 
>States kills 30,000 people. 
	
	Where on earth did this come from, AECL brochures? 

>Rather than stopping one source of power 
>that we *know* to be safer than what we have now, 

	Of course, we don't *know*, and the unfortunate *fact* is that
	we may not know until *long lasting* damage is done - something that
	cannot be said of coal combustion. We can clean up coal combustion
	now.

>why not find out the *facts* about the situation...

	I couldn't agree more. In the mean time, I find the attitude of
	pro-nukes, which might uncharitably be characterized as 
	"if you can't see it, don't worry about it" a bit naive. 
	Similar statements apply to nuclear paranoids, although their
	paranoia is perhaps well founded in view of our unpleasant
	experience with the chemical industries in the past.

	Given our current understanding of the effects of introducing
	highly toxic radioactive wastes into the ecosystem, which
	in our less than perfect world *is* a certainty, this debate
	can be little more than an argument of ignorance.

	To dive whole hog into nuclear power or any ill-understood
	technology is the height of folly. 

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