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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: plutonium arrives in Japan
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- Date: 5 Jan 93 20:51:48
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- Here is part of a U.P. story:
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- TOKAI, Japan (UPI) -- Workers unloading 1.7 tons of
- plutonium from the tanker Akatsuki Maru expected to finish
- the job Wednesday, while anti- nuclear groups continued
- protesting the arrival of the lethal cargo from Europe.
- Eight of 15 containers holding the reprocessed
- plutonium packed in 130 sealed casks were removed from the
- vessel and trucked Tuesday to the Power Reactor and Nuclear
- Fuel Development Corp. about a mile away, but the effort was
- halted by darkness.
-
- 1. The U.P. reporter in Tokyo has been consistently biased in
- using expressions like "the lethal cargo".
-
- 2. It looks like the Japanese will tough it out. Good for them.
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- 3. Greenpeace and the Japanese anti-nukes apparently managed only 500
- protesters after many months of beating the drum.
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- 4. Later in the article, it tells about efforts to get the U.S.
- to demand that the Japanese not use the plutonium. They pin
- their hopes on the new Administration. I sort of hope the
- Administration makes noises in this direction, and the Japanese
- tell us to mind our own business.
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- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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