RE: " Canada: Nuclear `Absolutely' Out "

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>]

Franz wrote :



I do not have any data available myself and I have to believe the ones put

forward by a newspaper. But: How much "data" has been put forward by

anti-nuclear groups on massmedia to show, that nuclear power and even

drinking water is deadly dangerous?



If we doubt what is put forward by mass media on the dangers of

radioactivity and nuclear power we also have to doubt what is put forward on

other dangers and risks.

<SNIP>



Jaro replies:



There is a principal of conservation of mass at work here Franz -- mountains

of coal go in one end of the plant and CO2, ash, gaseous pollution, heavy

metal vapours and NORMs come out the other end (along with electric energy &

waste heat).

Therefore I don't believe its very naive to expect a lot of pollution as a

result of using a lot of fossil fuel (although it helps to see it, in order

to believe it, as I have....).



According to the Toronto Public Health department, Ontario Power's

nitrogen-oxide and sulphur-dioxide discharges last year [1999] were about

199,000 tonnes, just under the regulatory ceiling of 215,000 tonnes.

The Health department's environmental report says emissions of smog-and

acid-rain-causing pollutants rose dramatically from 1996 to 1998, because of

Ontario's increasing reliance on coal-fuelled electricity generation. See

information at

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/legdocs/1999/agendas/committees/hl/hl990406/it

002.htm



NITROGEN OXIDES  % increase in emissions, 1996-1998



Lakeview (Toronto)      136%



Nanticoke (Lake Erie)   46%



All five coal plants         58%



SULPHUR DIOXIDE % increase in emissions, 1996-1998



Lakeview                       96%



Nanticoke                      70%



All five coal plants         68%



....I agree that there MAY be some exaggeration by environmentalist, when it

comes to the estimated health effects of this pollution -- claims of several

thousand annual deaths in the Toronto area alone have been reported in the

media.

But the Bonn conference is about CO2 emissions, and those are a simple

matter of chemistry & conservation of mass....



Regards,



Jaro

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