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Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared



This is a littlle whimsical, but does anyone remember Project Orion? Also, bet the people wringing their hands over possible accidents do not realize how many nuclear weapons were crashed in the "good ol' days".                                                Ed Battle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan L Gawarecki" <loc@icx.net>
To: "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

> I am weary of anti-nuclear activists seizing on every accident as an
> opportunity to say "imagine how much worse this would have been if a
> nuclear [reactor, waste, material] had been involved."  In the meantime,
> out of irrational fears, we are losing the significant environmental and
> efficiency benefits of applied applications of nuclear power.
>
> My own personal opinion.
>
> Susan Gawarecki