[ RadSafe ] Equal time - a negative view on Nuclear

[Doug Aitken]

At 07:21 PM 1/23/2007, Ruth Sponsler wrote:
>..........The net effect of their
>blockades, frivolous lawsuits, and "nuclear phaseouts"
>in both Europe and the United States has been to
>increase fossil fuel use and to increase the
>associated environmental problems including sulfur
>dioxide [acid rain], mercury pollution [from coal
>emissions], particulate emissions [largely from coal],
>and carbon dioxide emissions [from all fossil fuels,
>including natural gas as well as coal].

Ruth:
You forgot the radioactive emissions (from burning fossil fuels with NORM) :
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

A carefully ignored (by some!) fact????
Doug


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