Re: death wish?

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Sandy Perle <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>;

powernet@hps1.org <powernet@hps1.org>

Datum: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 19:59

Betreff: death wish?





There was an apparent glimmer of light when the Bush administration

proposed to focus on nuclear generated electricity, and, to

facilitate waste disposal facility operations, in order for the USA

to advance both technologically as well as economically. All was good

.. until Tom Daschle ascended to Majority Leader, stating that

nuclear power legislation is Dead On Arrival!   Now we have UK's

Blair using the same rhetoric. What is with these politicians?







So, we obviously have a death wish. We're on our way to a self-

fulfilling prophecy. With public opinion favoring nuclear generated

power, what will it take for these self-serving politicians to see

the light? Well for one, nuclear power that will allow the light to

come on when they flip the switch!

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Dear Sandy,



I understand your anger, but I think one should not adopt the attitude of

being one- track minded, not substitute hearsay for facts, not selectively

accept opinions and reports, which support ones own opinion. In our

profession we use to work with "probabilities" - so why not assign certain

probabilities of truth to certain news and mass media communications?



I know all too well, that my English is not good enough to express in many

cases the fine-tuning of the language, but you sure accept that my comment

is only intended as a source of discussion and not any severe agression!



To the facts:



Do you really believe that whatever Bush, Clinton, Blair, Schroeder etc say

is something fixed, which will open the door or close it to CO2-emission,

global warming, depletion of oil resources, role of hydroelectric power

generation? ... Oh, wasn't there another source of energy- (electricity-)

generation - nuclear power? Please accept that nuclear power plays in

political reasoning a very small role. It sure is not neglactable, but the

major issues are others. Do you really believe that the German Nuclear Power

Plants will be closed? The coalition of Socialists and Greens demands it.

But there will be elections within a few years - and who guarantees that the

same government will be in force - actually nobody thinks that this will

happen. Please accept that Nuclear Power is not a scientific question, but

only a political one, where pressure groups can well interfere, citing the

opinion polls like "Do you want to have your electricity produced by deadly

nuclear power plants rather than by clean and safe solar power?" Are you

surprised that these opinion polls result in a result against nuclear power?

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The current energy crisis, where demand exceeds supply, is only the

tip of the iceberg.



This is your situation in the USA. In Europe the price of electricity is

going down considerably, because there is a surplus of electricity, which is

most likely caused by the very strong nuclear electricity generation in

France.



Please do not forget that the USA is not all of the world.



It is apparent that US politicians (democrats

mostly), are going to throw us back into the dark ages. We will

continue to become more dependent on foreign sources of energy, and

in the end, will most likely become subservient to their needs.



No European country is self dependent on its own resources. and we still

survive. It is a question of diplomacy, politics and economics to assure

supply. No European country has become subservient to any Middle East

Country. The oil producing countries have to sell their oil and to withhold

it would severely damage their economy - like in natural science there is

also an economic equilibrium, which cannot be disturbed without major

economic problems.





Anyone remember our fighting men in Kuwait? If it weren't for oil, do

you think we would have been there? The answer is clear ..



The answer you think clear is not the one you expect. All to my knowledge

there were hardly any oil exports from this region to the USA - but the USA

had a "face" to loose in this region, the attempts of Iraque to produce a

nuclear weapon were well known and therefore the Gulf War provided an

internationally accepted possibility to stop these attempts.



it took

about 5 years before our fighting men went to the Balkans to stop

genocide. Too bad there wasn't oil in "them darn hills"!!



I do not share this opinion. Since in Kuwait the oil was not the reason, it

would even less have been in Serbia. (The USA did not care about the war

crimes committed by "Yugoslavia" in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia, only when

the situation escalated in Kosovo and the European Union urged an

intervention the USA responded.) Obviously ethnic problems - so very common

in the USA - are not considered as serious in other parts of the world. Can

you tell me any reasonable reason why the Serbs bombed Dubrovnik - I suppose

you recently could not avoid to notice what has happened? This was not oil,

this was not nuclear power!



I think that my comments might be some food for thoughts.....



Best regards,.



Franz







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