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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 14:52:20 EDT
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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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.