There are dangers to nuclear generation of electrical power. With the
exception of Russia, however, the record for the nuclear power industry is
unmatched by any other industry in the world. Not one death. Granted that
a catastrophic failure would have wide ranging and long term effects, but it
hasn't happened. That is with old technology and much of it trial by error
manufacture. Your fear of nuclear power is irrational given the facts. The
problems with contamination and the bulk of the storage problems, with
nuclear waste, were caused by development of the bomb. A great deal of this
occured before we were aware of the long term problems and the types of
materials used in processing bomb grade nuclear material. Breathing is
dangerous, why don't we all stop doing that.
I heard a snippet on the news a few weeks ago about a low tech way to
produce power from a nuclear reaction. Think I heard that it doesn't
produce the super long life radioactive byproducts and cannot self destruct
like our current technology. Unfortunately, the regulators are so paranoid
becuasue it is 'nuclear' that they won't let larger scale development
procede without all the safeguards of our current dangerous technology.
Because of the regulators, its too expensive to even think about and
research money is not available. Any one know what this technology is???
In the 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' vein, hear that those that
haven't died of the immediate and radiation caused secondary effects of the
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are living longer and healthier
lives than their non exposed counter parts. Looks like a little radiation
may be a good thing. Anybody want to volunteer to find out what 'little'
is??
For all the bunny lovers, hear that wildlife is flourishing in the areas
closed by the Chernobyl disaster. That should make the 'natural' crowd
support nuclear disasters.
Are you Canadian's really happy with the coal fired electrical generation
byproducts drifting up into your neck of the woods??? I'm amazed that so
many people love the real and present danger of acid rain while denying
construction of clean and safe power generation systems.
Talking about engine swaps, wouldn't a little nuclear reactor that you only
had to fill up once, and drive forever, be a dandy source of power for the
old series. Eliminate the problem of high fuel consumption and pollution of
the Petrol engines.
Aloha
Peter Ogilvie
Kona Coffee Rover
1970 88 soft top, 'huli' Mine since '84 but recovering
from exposure of the dark side.
1966 109 pickup 'slime' In my garage since '90, finally up and running
12/00.
1965 88 parts car, slowly sinking into the lava.
196? 88 hard top, possibly 'phoenix' if it rises, it will
certainly be from ashes or at least a pile of rust
>From: john.cranfield@ns.sympatico.ca (John Cranfield)
>Simon no doubt you are right but sometime a topic comes up that can't be
>ignored and the dangers of nuclear power is one of those because I want to
>be able to drive and repair my Land Rover for anther 50 years.
>John and Muddy
>
>SJH wrote:
> >
> > So nukes, Love Canal and personal injury lawyers have what to do with
> > Land Rovers? And no, I am not a PI lawyer, I actually spend my time
> > defending personal injury claims brought by Ambulance chasers... (But if
> > I or a family member werereally injured (as opposed to most of the soft
> > tissue injury crap I see), I'd want to be able to bring a claim for
> > it...)
> >
> > And yeah, I do know how to use my delete button, but the non LR stuff is
> > getting a tad thick lately dontchy'all think?
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message and any attachments to it are
> > intended for use only by the addressee(s), and may contain privileged or
> > confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please
> > kill yourself and permanently delete the original and any copy of this
> > message.
> >
> > Simon J. Harding
> > Attorney at Law
> > Schulte Anderson Downes Aronson & Bittner, P.C.
> > 503.223.4131
> > sharding@schulte-law.com
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