Re: nuclear hazards

[Jerry Hester <jhester@mtu.edu>]

GARY HEMMINGER wrote:

> I've never been able to understand those who argue in favor of
> nuclear power.   We are constantly creating more and more nuclear
> waste with these plants,  and there is still no where to put it!
> And who is proposing to dispose of it safely?  The government!
> Doesn't that make one just a little bit nervous?

I object!!!!

What is created in a nuclear power plant?  Are we ancient magicians that
we can create something from nothing, or are we efficient alchemists
that we can take a simple harmless material and turn it into something
harmful that didn't exist beforehand?  Perhaps the problem is not in the
plants but in the material disposal methods and places.  I believe the
plutonium existed long before the plants.

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