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To: Mark Marcellus who wrote (41779)	3/15/2011 11:35:33 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78568

You are making the same errors as the knee jerkers. The real question is: - What is the total cost of accidents accounting for accident frequency per energy produced vs other approaches? Everything else is just sentimentality. List of nuclear incidents is here: en.wikipedia.org Calculate what was the life loss and other costs. Then: How many gas and oil pipelines, reprocessing plants exploded during the same time period? It's up to you whether you want to include oil spills or not, since oil is not really used for electricity production. What was the life loss and the total costs? How much energy was produced by gas electric plants compared to nuclear? Or would you prefer to compare to coal electric plants? They are potentially very safe not counting mining accidents and of course pollution. If we can compare these numbers, that's the reasonable discussion. Everything else isn't.