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To: JohnM who wrote (9107)9/24/2003 6:05:49 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) of 793759
 
Widely accepted statistical models project that the plant will cause some three hundred premature deaths annually, from ailments like lung disease and stroke.

John,
The world has bigger problems that can be solved with far less resources.
Rather than statistical models lets look at some real statistics.

More people are killed by doctors in hospitals.
10,000-25,000 people are killed annually by land mines.
10,000 Americans die everyday.
Some 20,000 Americans are murdered every year including 600 infants.
4,000 Americans are killed annually by cars while walking or riding a bike. Should we ban both?
40,000 are killed in auto accidents.

We have electric generating alternatives...
Some reports say Chernobyl killed 125,000. Some believe it is 300,000 worldwide.
Professor Sternglass (Radiation Physics) at Univ of Pittsburgh estimates 450 American infants were killed by Three-Mile Island radiation.
Three-Mile Island came within 5 minutes of having a Chernobyl like second Hydrogen explosion...only this time rather than sweeping across a sparsely populated Ukraine the fallout would have covered the Northeast USA causing millions of fatalities while rendering NJ, NY and parts of PA and CT uninhabitable.

I have the power plant solution...Turn off your lights.
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