>
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 2:48 PM, David VanHorn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:33 PM, James Newton  
> <jamesnewton@massmind.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> And all that waste that we already DO have, is sitting in FAR less
> secure areas now.
>
>
> Everything has it's costs, and it does seem that embedded interests
> are hyping the dangers of the new stuff so that they won't loose their
> market.   There were at one time laws that required a motor vehicle to
> be preceeded by a flagman, etc..

And how many traffic deaths were there when a flagman insured your  
safety ?  Close to zero I imagine.  And now , about 50k people die  
per year.  Oh, I regret that we ever foolishly eliminated flagmen and  
flagfems.
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