Re: Re: Re: alternative fuels and dumb ideas

Posted by G Taylor nuclear has virtually no waste compaired to chemical power on April 17, 2001 at 22:00:43 from (64.10.111.149):

In Reply to: Re: Re: alternative fuels and dumb ideas posted by kev@ia on April 17, 2001 at 05:06:48:

Once again it's a case of most people get their information from the mass media.
Their anti nuke/anti war bias,exageration to raise ratings & general inacuracy. How often do you hear news reported on agriculture, a local event of just something you know about & the story is all mixed up. Remember the GM pickup side inpact crash demo with the rigged burn/explosion.
Common urban legends abound that " more women are beaten on SuperBowl Suday ( not), 10% of the population is queer ( it's 1 to 3%) etc.Even when untrue if repeated long enough they are accepted as truths.
I don't know what facts you know about nuclear energy, the effects of fossil fuel or how dangerous even radioactive coal,road asphalt,granite building stone,mothers milk, aircraft travel or how radioactive the soil naturaly is.
Yet people don't worry like they should about real dangers such as organic chemicals in the water/air/soil around the house/farm. Or lead,cadnium,mercury,arsnic, asbestoes,chlorine to name a few in industry.How about seat belts or airbags. How about money? Ever look up the numbers how many fewer years the average poor person lives than wealthy people? Or the quality of life?
People will sit in the sun with ozone depleated from burning fossil fuels & get sun burned. Smoke tobacco, ruin thier livers from over drinking, drive impaired,handle pestisides & herbicides without proper protection, drink water from untested wells to name a few.
Then these same people are worried about nuclear power & little bit of spent fuel that now fits in a swimming pool for 15 years. Then it's welded into concrete lined steel flasks. The fuel will be as radioactive as a Coleman lamp mantle by the time a flask rusts through. By the way a lamp mantle & some smoke detectors are too radioactive to remove from a nuclear power plant unless contained.
I wish people would just find out the facts, leave emotions & hearsay out of decisions.

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