>My point is that we currently have mountains (plural) and plains and caves
>and back yards full (to a lesser concentration) of nuclear waste (well, not
>waste, but still radioactive to some degree) which we aren't even apparently
>aware of and we don't worry about that, so why do we worry about a mountain
>that we DO know about?
>
>There are places where yellow cake sits around in national parks and kids
>use it to draw on rocks. Xrays, high airplane flights, and bad water cause
>more radiation damage than any nuke waste ever has. And coal power causes
>more damage of all sorts (radiation, pollution, etc...) than anything
>nuclear does ever.
>
>So why do we get so upset about nuke plants and nuke waste? The numbers
>don't account for the emotions.

Because human are not rational, and incorrectly assign risk to events.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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