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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (21102)	4/28/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Nancy!! I pretty much agree with you about nuclear power. I don't really think it is worth the risk, overall. Even when there are no horrible accidents like Chernobyl, there is horrible pollution as the result, for example contamination of the oceans near European nuclear power plants. I also wonder if our cancer rates, which have increased since the 1950's, might be connected to nuclear power plants. Here is an interesting article from yesterday's Irish Times, discussing that 90% of all cancer is environmentally caused: irish-times.com

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (21102)	4/29/1998 2:17:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Nancy, I agree that (ionizing) radiation is harmful, so we need to build safe, clean nuclear plants like France has done. Once they found a good design, they stayed with it. We started from scratch with each new design. The Chernobyl plants were poorly designed and maintained. If we are going to maintain the life style that we have now, we have to generate a lot of electricity. Coal and other fossil fuels pollute (and release some radiation) and add enormous amounts of CO2. Hydro damns up rivers, and most of those are already done. Geothermal has a lot of corrosion problems. Using wind, we would have to have windmills everywhere. I like solar and conservation, but we have a long way to go there yet. In the meantime, I would choose nuclear. Del