Re: Nuclear Waste Paradox

[Philip Hypes <phypes@lanl.gov>]

At 01:50 PM 11/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I wonder if all of the various issues could be metaphorically speaking put on
>the table through a process of public dialogue.  Thusly, an educated lay
>population can think about trade-offs regarding cost, safety, distance,
danger,
>benefits and so forth.

If we could actually produce an educated lay population, that would be the
biggest societal advance since government of the people, by the people and
for the people.
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Philip Hypes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Safeguards Science and Technology Group (NIS 5)
(505) 667-1556  phypes@lanl.gov

Opinions expressed are purely my own unless otherwise noted

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