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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, I think we know enough now that perhaps the answer is not to send 
anymore "cars" out on the road until someone discovers how to implement 
brakes on the vehicle.  Talk about not safe at any speed!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


> High-level RW isn't safe (the very hottest stuff you can walk up to,
> but you don't walk away). That's why it needs to be isolated.
>
> I don't believe the government went into nuclear development with the
> understanding of how politically impossible it would be in this
> country to handle the stuff rationally.
>
> Yes, of course, there's an industry, but there are also millions of
> people who are getting their electricity from nuclear power plants.
> The whole energy industry is dirty and destructive of the environment.
> Coal plants not only cause global warming, but they kill the miners
> who extract the coal and destroy the environment where the coal is
> extracted (lots of people in West Virginia are upset that their
> mountains are being de-topped and the slag pushed into streams. Plus,
> coal being an element extracted from the earth releases radioactivity
> when it is burned. The average coal plant releases more radioactivity
> to the general public than a nuclear plant does. No happy answers
> exist.
> > I appreciate looking at disposal besides military use but injecting the
> > planet anywhere is a global decision, whether in the ocean or earth's
> > mantle. Keep responsibility with profit for a sane economy.
> That's why I think the ocean trench solution should be studied by an
> international group of scientists. Look, we have the stuff, and
> pretending it will just go away isn't going to help much.
>
> Marie
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