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persistence of anti-nuclear activism



So who is responsible for the waste in efforts and money: the poor innocent who calls for more money to be spent on making reactors safer, or the engineer who decides we shall redimension all pumps and triple them for a good measure, the scientist who says more research is needed... the guy who makes a living writing regulations in government... ?
 
In the (sort of) plot to uninvent nuclear science all do cooperate: let's make it harder, more difficult, more expensive: those who are in get to keep making money, and those who are out and protest are helping for free.
 
One mayor problem with nuclear things in general has been this: complicity among professionals, the public and the politicos to make the science and the economy all but transparent. You can bloat the power stations cost, so long as electricity stays cheaper anyhow.
 
In my opinion, it is irrelevant here to comment the latest idiocy from the latest anti-nuclear activist  (they are the illiberal ones, to be sure, by the way). Let us ask ourselves instead: who is really against nuclear energy - and what reasons move the media - and why?
 
Marco
http://chemitech.com
[Marco Caceci] Commenting on:
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From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Jke310@AOL.COM
Sent: 06 November, 2001 6:10 PM
To: michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu; sfrantz@YAHOO.COM; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: nuclear safety groups?
Their usual tactic is to throw so many obstacles into the roadway that it becomes progressively more expensive to accomplish anything. Then they complain that nuclear anything costs too much. If they and others of their ilk were required to post a bond every time they created a cost increase with one of their exaggerations, and to forfeit it when they were shown to be wrong, they would quickly run their own cost-benefit analysis and straighten up.

Jack Earley
Radiological Engineer