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To: Ilaine who wrote (46745)	7/23/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (3) of 108807

I did not say that we should be careless with nuclear power, only that it is unreasonable and unfair to demand 100% safety from nuclear plants, which of course can't be guaranteed. A coal fired plant involves all of us by spewing out huge amounts of CO2 and pollutants. There is a real possibility to have a runaway greenhouse effect that kills us all. Someone could hijack an airliner and plow it into the Super Bowl. These kinds of events are improbable, but not impossible, yet we don't demand the end of flying or coal plants. We do lose, in aggregate, about 50,000 people a year in cars. Chernobyl was about as bad a nuclear accident as you'll probably ever see, yet how many died? A few hundred? That plant had no containment building, and was sloppily built and run. It did not kill or maim an unlimited number of people. I consider myself an ecologist, and I prefer nuclear over fossil fuels. Del

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