Forum Archive Index - May 2004

[hugh webber <hugh.webber@clear.net.nz>]

There is a large amount of emotional claptrap in all that which a 
moments reflection and some wider reading should have made 
obvious. If you listen to a self appointed "expert" who is also 
emotionally prejudiced rather than objective then you are 
just reinforcing your own prejudices.

Fact No 1: There are large number of nuclear power plants which 
have been successfully operating around the world for decades 
in a significant number of countries.

Fact No 2: France for example gets most of its electricity from 
nuclear power stations. France is a competitive successful 
industrial country. i.e. the alleged uneconomics of nuclear 
power quoted are obvious bullshit. Get some real figures.

Fact No 3: There has only ever been one nuclear power station 
disaster - Chernobyl, due to all the operating procedures being 
ignored. It is safer using nuclear power stations than driving a 
car or flying in a plane. 

Fact No 4: Many NZers have a religious blind spot when you mention 
nuclear. Its time they grew up, became mature.
The sun is a continuing hydrogen bomb, the light from your watch in the 
dark is radioactive, cancer tumours are treated with radiation, when 
you fly high in an aircraft you are exposed to radiation.
Plant and animal life at the epicentre of the Hiroshima bombblast had 
resumed within months. Millions of tourists have now milled through it.
None of them have died, or even been affected by it.


Lets have some common sense behaviour and attitudes instead of 
political correctness and state education system brain washing.


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