Re: More on Bush's new energy plan...

hhc314@xxxxxxxxx included:
> ... nuclear produced energy is not only the cleanest and
> cheapest energy source known but, based upon statistics, the safest. It
> produces zero pollution at both the energy generaton site and at the
> point of use, and uranium mining is a much safer and cleaner operation
> than exists with any fossil fuel source of supply and distribution. How
> many more miners must be killed and gas pipelines disasters take place
> before the general public recognizes this fact?

Zero more, or perhaps minus-several-hundred more, cf.
http://www.nei.org/documents/PublicOpinion_05-02.pdf

Belief in the public's irrationality on this point
tells more about the believer than about the public,
cf. http://www.opec.org/library/Special%20Publications/pdf/2004.pdf




--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
boron: how individual mobility gains nuclear cachet
.

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