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To: E. Charters who wrote (8729)5/26/2012 11:52:04 AM
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Thanks for posting. This must be considered in perspective. The coal fired power plants have, and continue to spew 100,000s of tons of radiation in the form of radioactive thorium and uranium into the atmosphere for all of us to breath. Additionally, the leftover slag heaps have been considered as a commercial source of uranium mining while they also leach unknown quantities of heavy metals into the groundwater for us to drink. The reasonable estimates of those killed from coal soot air pollution run from 500,000 to 1,000,000 or more over the last 40 years. These numbers deserve our attention. They are real dead people, not theoretical casualties. Throw in the acid rain and the billions of tons of greenhouse gases and you have to wonder if perhaps our decisions to halt the development of nuclear power has cause far more harm than good. How do we put the potential risks of nuclear power into perspective compared to the dangers of the alternatives? IMO, the risks have been enormously exaggerated while the dangers of the alternatives have been completely ignored. Perhaps a million or more dead people are silent testimony to the unfounded hysteria. Maybe you were around when the 3 mile island incident happened? The country had just seen the movie The China Syndrome so we knew that 3 mile island was a disaster. Never mind that the safety systems worked and no meaningful amounts of radiation escaped. We saw the movie so we knew it was a disaster. As a result, there was a moratorium on new nuclear plants and we accelerated the use of coal. The rest is history. The rest of the world is building nuclear plants at a fevered pace and we are belching pollution and hugging trees.

France gets 85% of it's electricity from nuclear power. Why do we have a nuclear waste problem here when France has no waste problem? Do the laws of Physics differ in France?
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