Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

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

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Von: Raymond Shadis <shadis@ime.net>

An: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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Datum: Samstag, 07. Juli 2001 01:29

Betreff: Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?





>Count among those destitute terrorists nuclear pioneers, H.D Smyth and E.P.

>Wigner, who three days after Pearl Harbor wrote a report concluding that

the

>fission products formed in only a single day of operating a nuclear reactor

>at a power of 100,000 kilowatts might be enough to render a large area

>uninhabitable. In 1948, the brilliant Hans Thirring published a paper

>describing the potential in the dispersal of short-lived fission products

>to force evacuation of enemy cities.



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I do not know either of the reports mentioned. While I would believe, that

the Smyth and Wigner report most probably was addressed to government

authorities and probably advocated to use fission products as a mean of

warfare, I can hardly believe that Hans Thirring has advocated the use of

it - why should he? I can only believe that he may have pointed to the

possibility that fission products could be used for warfare and warned for

it. I met him as a young student at a discussion about a theater play about

J.R. Oppenheimer. I advocated that questions like the use of the nuclear

bomb should not be left only to military and politics, but that scientists

should play a much bigger role. I was very proud that this "big man" thanked

me for raising this issue and supported my idea. From this I draw my

conclusion about his attitude towards nuclear warfare.



Best regards,



Franz







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