[ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plant Effluents

[dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com]

Excellant points.  Just to add a little detail, between 5000 and 6000
pedestrians are killed every year.  Also, hundreds of children are killed
as passengers in vehicles, including a few each year who are coerced into
riding in school busses.   Clearly a child under that age of 8 has not
volunteered for death by automobile.  In addition to those murdered in the
World Trade Center, hundreds of people on the ground have also been
accidentally killed by falling airplanes, including many who were in houses
or other buildings.  There almost no realistice method of escaping those
risks.  On the other hand, the risk of death or injury in a nuclear power
plant accident is largely voluntary in that it is relatively easy to stay
10 miles away from nuclear power plants.  However, in realty, almost
everybody volunteers for the risk by not moving away or by moving into the
"at risk" area.

There are also about 800 bicyclists killed each year, in addition to
pedestrian deaths.  This information is available in detail on the web from
the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Of course the above risks are only the tip of the iceburg respecting
"involuntary" risks.

Don Kosloff, nuclear risk volunteer
Perry OH and Shippingport PA



                                                                                                                                       
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<SNIP>
I know that many people respond by saying that driving a car is a
"voluntary" risk, but what about the risk to pedestrians or bicyclists -
are  they
"volunteering" for the risk of your driving above 5 miles per hour?   Are
they
assuming that risk by venturing outside at all?  And, what of  those rare
occasions when a car goes careening into someone's living room?   Did they
"volunteer"
for that risk?  A rare occurrence, yes, but death by  nuclear power is much

rarer in the U.S.  Much, much rarer.
<SNIP>

Barbara L. Hamrick


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