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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21291)	5/5/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Radiation. Primarily, it's the "delayed" effects that have my attention. Remember the Castle Bravo event down Enewetak way? It had a most righteous fallout plume. The Rongelap Islanders maybe a hundred miles away came through that fine, but 10 years later ninety percent of them had contracted cancer. Radiation (unless the dose is horrific!) is without flavor or odor. The only way to track a radiation release is with instruments. While they are available to those who know where to ask, Geiger counters aren't something you'll find at the mall. Look at the Nevada "downwinders". I know less about the Ukraine's downwinder population. The government wasn't exactly up front with them, and now there are significant cancer clusters in the US population. Do you have data on the ex-Sovs? My biggest gripe about reactor waste is that it is so long-lived. High-level and transuranic waste takes many thousands of years to become insignificantly toasty. This is the one factor which keeps me from an unequivocal advocacy of civil fission power. If I can be reassured that the post-processing hard core of fission ashes can be permanently safed against stupid or nasty people, I'll concede that remaining issue. It's a difficult issue for me to consider because I'm trying to separate what I learned as fact from the popular science "factoids" we get bombarded with. I'm not sure I'm succeeding. Very recently I heard that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki fallout plumes dispersed over the sea. And yet there was a lot of injury and death in the "later" phases. I don't know how much, and I don't know how it distributes in time . Weeks? Years? Bottom line: this is the one end of large-scale nuclear power generation I've been given no reason to trust.

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