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- From: abrown@hpcvcec.cv.hp.com (Allen Brown)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace and nuclear power
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.033243.24532@hpcvca.cv.hp.com>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:32:43 GMT
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- moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
- > Bernard Everett Hoefer writes...
- >> It seems to me that Greenpeace would like to see the
- >> countries of the world drop their nuclear power programs. Why is
- >> this? What reasons to they have to want to ban nuclear power?
- A big part of it is the unsolved problem of how to dispose of
- radioactive waste.
-
- > A related question is, given there is now lots of that evil plutonium in
- > the world, in the form of bombs and "spent" fuel rods, if Greenpeace got
- > their way, what would they do with it all?
- I think their first priority is to stop the production of it: ``First we
- have to stop producing this crap. Then we will have to figure out
- what to do with what we already have.''
-
- > I know they'd shut down every
- > nuke in the world so no more gets created but what of the stuff that
- > already exists? Can't fission it, else that would mean running the
- > nukes (or setting off the bombs...)
- > -Mike
- That is the point.
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- Allen C. Brown abrown@cv.hp.com or hplabs!hpcvca!abrown or "Hey you!"
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