Short ?positive? article

["Cary Renquist" <crenquis@med.umich.edu>]

A friend sent me this one...

Just a short lil` article about the reporter's tour through MIT's

reactor:



http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15533



   ...

   Despite all of the "Warning! Radioactive!" signs, I felt totally

secure inside the reactor. The 

   place was a monument to safety measures: In the event of an

emergency...

   ...

   MIT's nuclear reactor is no more dangerous than many laboratories.

You can be exposed 

   to radiation or worse in an undergraduate biology lab, and the

explosion possibilities in a 

   chem lab are nothing to sneeze at. But nuclear power has a mystique.

As we left, exposing 

   our bodies to Geiger counters en route, I thought about how

generations had been raised 

   to believe nukes were the scariest things in the world. 



   But they aren't. We can weaponize nature in all kinds of massively

destructive ways. Nukes, 

   I'm afraid, are just the beginning. 



Cary











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