Re: "POLLUTION FREE"

[damcclure@Lanl.GOV (Donald A. McClure 7-3243 DX-DO)]

Seems to me I remember fish and fishermen liking the "thermal polution" at
Crystal River, Saint Luci, Diablo Canyon, ... a few degrees is a wonderful
thing to these types.

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>Excuse me, but what about thermal pollution?  I don't know much about 
>nuclear power, but aren't large amounts of water needed for cooling 
>purposes with resulting elevation of temperature in the receiving 
>waters?  Temperature changes can cause population changes in various 
>organisms, from microbes on up.
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>      >      Well, how about >      
>>      No carbon dioxide, no NOx, no unburned hydrocarbons, no soot, 
>flyash, 
>>      acid rain, no smoke, no smog, no noise, negligible gaseous radioactive 
>>      releases, all solid radwaste is buried and secured from human contact 
>>      for 300 years.  Our liquid effluents have not been found to 
>>      concentrate significantly in the aquatic life in the rivers, lakes or 
>>      oceans.  Oh yes, what about that spent fuel?  While it is a problem, 
>>      it cannot be considered pollution.  If the public ever gets over its 
>>      unfounded fear of radiation (or something equally dramatic happens) 
>>      the spent fuel can be safely stored underground virtually 
>>      forever--still, no pollution.
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>> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Blue Ice & [I-131]
>> Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
>> Date:    11/29/95 11:05 AM
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>> Would you expand upon the concept of "pollution free", please?
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>> David F. Gilmore,
>Assistant Professor of          0  0
>Environmental Biology            __    "have a day"
>Arkansas State University
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