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To: Snowshoe who wrote (63692)5/9/2005 4:57:08 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Snowshoe, Re: nuclear power. Now put on your thinking cap for a minute and try to mentally block any negative images you might have absorbed from the media, environmentalists or any others who might have had an ulterior motive for bashing nuclear power. We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki yet the places are great cities with huge populations and were inhabited right through the aftermath of the attacks, right? We and the Soviets blasted off no telling how many hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, some of them "super bombs" with a yield approaching 50 megatons, right? There are literally millions of people today who have worked in the nuclear industry or were exposed due to the military tests or other exposures who recieved high doses of radiation but are today perfectly healthy, right?

There is just no concieveable way that nuclear power will dose the environment like the military uses of the past did, just NO WAY. Yet we survived those episodes undimdinshed. So why worry about nuclear power? Radiation, up to a point is harmless. And this big hubub about the waste material? Thats BS too. The vast majority of the fairly hot stuff is material like stainless steel that was irradiated in the reactor and hence is itself radioactive, but with a fairly low half life.

I have a friend who was an underwater welder in the nuclear industry for 25 years. He has some interesting stories. He was exposed WAY MORE than any of us will ever be. He's in his late 50's and is a picture of health.

The anti-nuke movement had its origins in the same place that Raymond's ideas came from, the international communist movement.
Slagle
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