Re: persistence of anti-nuclear activism

[mark sasser <duke99301@YAHOO.COM>]

WHAT?

--- Marco Caceci <mcaceci@radal.com> wrote:

> 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:

>    -----Original Message-----

>   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

> 

> 





=====

mark sasser 

at duke99301@yahoo.com

you can also reach me at duke9930@concentric.net



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