More nuclear electricity tax in Sweden

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

The Swedish politicians (Social democratic government, left party (former 
communists) and the environmental ("green") party) took a decision today to 
increase the tax on nuclear electricity by about 7-8%.
The spokesman ("Birger Schlaug") for the environmental party is, according 
to the media, very happy about this - he has previously said that we must 
"move away from a society where we use radioactivity". He also once (in 
1987) wrote an article about radioactive releases during normal operation - 
trying to frighten people without giving numbers. That time I responded by 
pointing out that the calculated annual equivalent whole-body doses for the 
releases in question to people living just outside the NPP were in the order 
of 0.00001 mSv and compared this with the potassium 40 contribution from 
your own body. Birger S. never replied however - instead one of his 
collegues responded by discussing atomic bombs, and other side tracks. 
Fortunately that particular newspaper understood enough of the essence to 
give the topic the treatment it deserved.

Bjorn Cedervall, Stockholm (representing myself)
bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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