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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
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- Subject: Re: Is car pooling for real? (was Re: Are bikes really less polluting?)
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:21:12 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.163846.15871@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Jul17.163846.15871@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU:, gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- : When the regulations are properly followed, nuclear power is
- : reasonable safe. When regulations are properly followed, medical waste
- : is reasonable safe.
- ...
- : When will happen WHEN someone shady operator dumps radioactive waste
- : somewhere? It has happened before (Brazil) and will happen again.
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- Based on 50 years of experience, that simply will not happen in the US.
- The licensing requirements are so stringent for every entity that touches
- the stuff and the fines for even paper transgressions so severe that
- shady operators don't exist. Consider that the NRC considers liability
- for FUPs to be joint and several, meaning that all parties involved are
- fully liable for the FUP. Further consider that $100,000 fines from the
- NRC for even simple things like paperwork foulups are not uncommon,
- and what we have is a rather draconian and grossly expensive system
- of disposal that nontheless works.
-
- Interesting to try to make a point by comparing what might happen in
- the US to events in one of the more environmentally disasterous third world
- countries.
-
- John
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