Turkey power options

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

Turkey has constructed several large dams for hydroelectric power. 
Earthquakes in the NW part of the country put all downstream residents
at risk, as well as citizens of Iraq.  There's no doubt in my mind that
the water released from a dam break would kill far more people then if a
nuclear plant's containment ruptured. 

In my personal opinion, of course.

--Susan Gawarecki

<<ISTANBUL, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Environmental activists wearing ``masks 
of death'' on Tuesday staged a lie-down protest on the eve of an 
expected Turkish government decision to award the first ever nuclear 
power plant. 
...
But a housing ministry satellite survey map showed the region as one 
of the least earthquake prone areas in Turkey. 

Two devastating earthquakes ripped through northwest Turkey last 
year, killing more than 18,000 people and igniting a refinery blaze 
which threatened to spread out of control.>>
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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee, Inc.
136 S Illinois Ave, Ste 208, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone (865) 483-1333; Fax (865) 482-6572; E-mail loc@icx.net 
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