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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: California power ... unplugged.
All true, but irrelevant to the people with cancer in the Ukraine and elsewhere. Still, having worked in rnd.pge.com back when it was a state of the art department, the consensus there was that small nuclear plants were far safer than the large one's in vogue before 3 mile island (whose core is now encased in concrete for thousands of years). No question nuclear is clean but only if you carefully ignore the danger of depleted uranium. But I digress, that's a problem for future generations (if we're lucky). Roger > Sorry, but nukes are clean and safe. Sure people have died from nukes, > but millions have died from producing coal for plants. Why do we build > coal plants and not nukes? Because people don't care if OTHERS die, if > 100,000 people a year die from digging coal they are not in your > community, that is better then the risk to THEM however small.
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