On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:50 +0100, Howard Winter wrote:
> > >         'waste?, what waste?".
> > 
> > But this is what has been done with fossil fuels. Air pollution, lung
> > cancer, lead poisoning, are all being ignored.
> 
> So that makes it OK???

Of course it doesn't. But it does tend to nullify MANY of the arguments
against nuclear power. 

> And actually, all of the above are being addressed (Kyoto, increasing bans on places where smoking is allowed, RoHS...)

All are addressed? I'd same SOME are partically being considered about
being addressed. Kyoto is in many ways a joke. RoHS is a larger joke (if
you consider the percentage of lead found elsewhere in industry).

> > At least with Nukes, people take the waste seriously. The problem is that
> > they are not making a fair comparison with the waste from other energy
> > sources.
> 
> "Two wrongs don't make a right".  The problem is not that nuclear waste is being taken too seriously (?), but that the others aren't being taken 
> seriously enough.  "He started it" isn't a valid excuse here, any more than it was for school playground fights...

Very true, I completely agree, however...

We need energy. We can't just stop producing it and spend time solving
the waste problems.

As such, you must accept that SOME method of power generation MUST
continue.

In such a case, it doesn't matter that they both produce waste, that is
obvious. All we are left with is to choose technologies where the
(problem of waste)/(energy produced) ratio is as low as possible. IMHO
nuclear is FAR lower in this regard then coal, a LARGE part of power
production in the world today. Others will obviously dissagree, since
the (problem of waste) term is VERY hard to quantify.

> > And they are being down right stupid in their fear of the nuke waste. Yes,
> > it is dangerous, but it isn't THAT dangerous.
>  
> So you'd let them bury it in your back garden?  What would the chickens say?  :-)))

But you have NO problem with all the crap you are breathing in every
single day, all the crap you are ingesting every single day? I'd rather
have waste that I KNOW about where it is and how it affects me then
waste that is everywhere I go.

But that's just me.

TTYL

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