[ RadSafe ] re: Nader claims

[Maury Siskel]

Thought radsafe readers should be aware of this [extract of a] Nader 
editorial.  If someone has numbers handy, then it would be nice to 
supply an answer to  "...  the enormous costs, risks and national 
security dangers associated with their operations and the large amount 
of radioactive wastes  ..."  by our production of electricity by nat 
gas, coal, wind, and solar panels.
Cheers,
Maury&Dog  [MaurySiskel maurysis at peoplepc.com]

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  Published on Saturday, February 13, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

No Nukes  by Ralph Nader

A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power 
plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three 
Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the 
enormous costs, risks and national security dangers associated with 
their operations and the large amount of radioactive wastes still 
without a safe, permanent storage place for tens of thousands of years.

All Americans better get informed soon, for a resurgent atomic power 
lobby wants the taxpayers to pick up the tab for relaunching this 
industry. Unless you get Congress to stop this insanely dirty and 
complex way to boil water to generate steam for electricity, you'll be 
paying for the industry's research, the industry's loan guarantees and 
the estimated trillion dollars (inflation-adjusted) cost of just one 
meltdown, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, plus vast 
immediate and long-range casualties.

The Russian roulette-playing nuclear industry claims a class nine 
meltdown will never happen. That none of the thousands of rail cars, 
trucks and barges with radioactive wastes will ever have a catastrophic 
accident. That terrorists will forgo striking a nuclear plant or 
hijacking deadly materials, and go for far less consequential disasters.
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