On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Russell McMahon wrote:

> 4) Any benefits from Nuclear power at this stage would be far far far 
> outweighed by the potential dangers to the country's economy from any sort of 
> nuclear accident. We live and (hope not to) die on our primary produce and 
> our freedom from various nasties due to our large geographic separation 
> across oceans from major land masses. Our very small size and long thin 
> geography mean that a 3 mile Island or Chernobyl or even Mururoa or even 
> Japanese minor containment type issue would wreak havoc with our 'clean 
> green'ness (no matter how illusory) for unforseeable yonks.
>
> I'm no Luddite (despite what it may appear from some of my stances) but am 
> sure enough that Nuclear power makes very little sense for us in the 
> foreseeable future. Just dam another river and ... :-).

How about if one of your volcanoes starts to leak a little ? Like Mt. 
St.Helens ? Not that they don't already, but I mean in the context of a 
feared nuke accident ?

http://www.natureandco.co.nz/land_and_wildlife/landforms/volcanics/active.php3

Peter
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