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Role of nuclear energy in climate control



Ladies and Gentlemen:

If one is at all serious about reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,
one cannot avoid the conclusion that nuclear energy replacing fossil fuels
must be a major factor in such a program.  Arguments against such a course
are based on irrelevant political beliefs, and are generally invalid as
well.

Other forms of energy are wholly inadequate to the task.  Wind and solar are
not only trivial in capacity but unreliable in output.  Hydrogen and fuel
cells are generally not energy sources, but merely energy vehicles.  There
are no hydrogen mines; hydrogen is produced by expending more energy from
some other fuel.

The "nuclear waste problem" is not a problem.  Neither persons nor the
environment are threatened by cans of waste.  They are only a problem if
eaten.  The leakage and contamination problems featured so prominently in
the media are virtually all from weapons facilities, which would require
handling regardless of whether there were power plants.

The fact that a large nuclear power plant can store ALL of its waste for 40
years on its own property contrasts vividly with the waste from other power
generators that dump their waste--millions of times greater in volume--into
the air and the rivers.

If diplomats keep pretending that nuclear energy must be forbidden as a
energy source for frivolous reasons, they will have to answer to the poor
people of the earth, whom they are condemning to a life of poverty and
privation, and an unending series of wars over the earth's dwindling fuel
supplies.

A British energy official was quoted as saying "Of course we will apply the
Carbon Tax to nuclear, otherwise it would have an unfair advantage over
coal."  Do you think the common people cannot see through such sophistry?
They will view such immoral behavior as simple betrayal.

Theodore Rockwell
Radiation, Science & Health, Inc.



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