[37003] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: California power ... unplugged.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James S. Smith)
Sun Apr 29 01:55:56 2001
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "James S. Smith" <jssmith@mobshop.com>
To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Perhaps you just need some properly built nuclear plants. :) Ontario has
3 nuclear plants that generator 40% of the province's power and these
things are pretty much the safest nukes in the world. Last time I took a
tour of one, they said they were building similar plants for other
countries. Perhaps you Yanks want to buy some Canadian built technology,
eh?
http://www.opg.com/newgen/nuclear/nuclear.asp
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James S. Smith
The first time I ever administered Exchange 5.5 was Feb 21st, 2001.
The last time I ever wanted to touch Exchange 5.5 was Feb 21st, 2001
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Roger Marquis wrote:
>
> All true, but irrelevant to the people with cancer in the Ukraine
> and elsewhere. Still, having worked in rnd.pge.com back when it
> was a state of the art department, the consensus there was that
> small nuclear plants were far safer than the large one's in vogue
> before 3 mile island (whose core is now encased in concrete for
> thousands of years).
>
> No question nuclear is clean but only if you carefully ignore
> the danger of depleted uranium. But I digress, that's a problem
> for future generations (if we're lucky).
>
> Roger
>
> > Sorry, but nukes are clean and safe. Sure people have died from nukes,
> > but millions have died from producing coal for plants. Why do we build
> > coal plants and not nukes? Because people don't care if OTHERS die, if
> > 100,000 people a year die from digging coal they are not in your
> > community, that is better then the risk to THEM however small.
>
>
