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David S. No, neither does nuclear nor has it ever caused anyone to be "buried in a lead box". This is the huge popular disconnect with a sound debate over, say, climate change and. one dealing with nuclear energy. you prove the point by negative example. Nuclear energy has killed less people than any baseload power. 5 operators are killed, blown up at a gas turbine plan Ct. last montt, but because the Green movement is currently in love in with natural gas, you don't hear anything about this. If an operator stubs his toe in a nuclear plant, you'd hear about it all over the world. You as just as susceptible to such nonsense it seems as the Greens. The *fact* that coal power and other fossil power has killed far more than commercial nuclear doesnt seem to phase you or Louis at all. 5 people killed in Connecticut are 5 more than ever killed in any US nuclear plant in 50 years of operation and you bring up a 'maybe...'???. How many areas have been made "unlivable" or nuclear waste spread over it? ZERO. This is the disconnect I mentioned above. 20% of the US electrical generation is essentially carbon free *thanks to nuclear energy*. We are facing a huge carbon caused climate crisis and you don't seem to understand risk assessment...at all. This brings up to Louis comments since his comments sort of center any discussion on energy. And that's what the discussion is really about: how to produce energy and whether it is around the ability of 'wind turbines' vs coal vs gas vs solar vs nuclear, and so on. If people on this list were to do the research required to see what it would take to zero out fossil energy production, you'd find 'wind mills and solar energy' would not be able to do this. in fact. the more wind energy there is the tendency is to build more fossil plants for back up. The rather disgusting joined at the hip natural gas industry with the wind industry should be raising eyebrows among the left and on this list specifically but it does not. We are never going to ween ourselves off of fossil without nuclear energy. That's the conclusion *more and more* on the left have arrived at: that so called 'alternatives' are nothing more than a fanstasy that best sounds good and at worse will keep us on fossil fuel addiction for ever. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
