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To: Joe NYC who wrote (356715)	11/1/2007 12:35:52 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 1575781

With the scaremongers running amok, and few making couter arguments, is there a reason that people get scared? The leaders of scaremongers were (and in many cases still are) the environmentalists. I don't disagree with you but between the fear of a meltdown and what to do with nuclear wastes, Americans are in a tizzy about nuclear energy. It doesn't help that they built so many of the existing plants close to population centers. While you blame the environmentalists, I think a lot of the blame lies with American leaders and gov't officials during the Cold War. In the schools, kids were regularly reminded of the threats that nukes posed the world with graphic films that showed the results of nuclear meltdown or nuclear winter after a nuclear war. Hollywood did its part by showing fictional films in movie theaters and on tv, depicting the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. Nukes caused spiders to mutate into huge monsters, humans to turn into vampires, cities into radioactive hell. After a while, nukes and nuclear energy got a bad name based less on facts but more on manufactured fear......not unlike what's happened to the poor shark. American leaders are good at manufactured fear.

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