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To: Mark Fleming who wrote (74)	6/2/2001 1:55:22 AM
From: jack bittner	Respond to of 555

TENNESSEAN Special Report ... • Map of nuclear facilities • Where toxic agents strike THE ILL WE INTERVIEWED • Names, ages and symptoms PREVIOUS REPORT - PART 1 Health problems emerge at Oak Ridge In February 1997, The Tennessean began a series of stories about ... tennessean.com. One of several reports by The Tennessean newspaper. Not a bunch of environmentalist crazies. Just a good old American paper doing a reporting job. They spoke directly to over 400 people (there are thousands more) all of whom live near nuclear plants and are suffering and dying from mysterious tumors, hemorrhaging etc. Now why should this be so? The Earth is all of a piece. There are fissures in the earth, and these lead to underground water, which flows for miles. the air passes over these sites - and flows for miles. You have spent rods of U235, hundreds of them, radiating deadly waves for up to thousands of years. Do you wonder where they are stored right now? They are kept in the plants that produce them. They are near to overflowing. Why are they kept there? The Government has been "studying" the Yucca National Storage facility for over 10 years (cost so far $5 billion) because they are afraid to move the rods. How'd you like to be riding behind a truckful? We all know the nuclear plants are radioactive. So nobody's upset about that (except the dying thousands of whom The Tennessean has spoken to 400). So they keep them there so there'll be no fuss. But when they move the rods to Yucca, and if ALL the rods from all the plants now and to be, are in Yucca, think how radioactive that will be. with thousands of trucks moving millions of radioactive rods over innumerable years, on roads leading from nuclear facilities all over the U.S. (that's what you want, right?) - what about the inevitable truck accident spilling hundreds of rods - maybe on you. I build and maintain property. I've never dug under a facility without finding rot, and leaks of all sorts. Everything leaks everywhere. It's the nature of the world. You want to add radioactivity to the rest? radioactivity that for all intents we can never get rid of. If you live near Diablo Canyon you should move. Especially if you have kids.

To: Mark Fleming who wrote (74)	6/2/2001 2:16:07 AM
From: jack bittner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 555

"If alternative energies were cost competitive ..." If autos were built in the tiny quantities that renewable energy devices are, autos would not be affordable. The "big bad powerful" oil companies have controlled the Congress since they became titans, and now they also control the executive branch. they have, and will continue to make sure that the government does nothing to get renewable energy to a size that offers economies of scale. the government subsidizes the auto industry by building roads. Bush says he will do everything necessary to aid coal companies, gas pipe lines, transmission systems. Fine. I'm all for that (except the coal) because we need a much more efficient power distribution system right now. at the same time we should spend billions to perfect solar devices, windmills, and whatever else does that job. as to costs: think of the medical bills reduced by clean air in the cities.