From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: Is nuclear energy "polluting"? (was Re: Is car pooling for real?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 06:40:26 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:

>>Air bags are useless except in certain carefully defined situations.  
>>and are harmful in many others.  Despite the growing body of evidence that 
>>they either don't work or are actively harmful, and NTSHA is suppressing that 
>>fact, those little bits of explosive continue to get embedded in America's 
>>steering wheels.  At least in the case of air bags, I have a choice.  

>So, if NTSHA "suppresses" information, why is it that DOE/NRC safety
>guidelines are to be trusted?  Must be a very complicated conspiracy
>indeed.

Perhaps we SHOULD take a good hard look at the NRC regs to figure out
how many of them are the result of posturing, politics or a refusal
to admit that they were wrong.  I already have a few in mind.
But I'm going to let you do your own homework and see if you can 
come up with a few.

>>Tell us, Vic.  If, say, medical rad-waste is diluted to the point where
>>its activity is below that of ambient background, and it is placed in
>>a landfill, is there positive, negative or zero radiological environmental 
>>impact?

>Well, that depends on what happens to the waste after it gets dumped
>and on how certain we are that the waste is always properly diluted, doesn't
>it? Believe it or not, that which is diluted is sometimes concentrated
>later on by biological or physical processes. 

He ducks, he weaves, he bobs, he evades but he does not answer the 
question.  Yacky, that works on TV where we can't talk back but that
boat don't float here.  Try, if you can, to address my question.
Of course I know you can't because you haven't even a distant clue as
to what you speak.

>>Please be specific and present your supporting evidence.  Please don't
>>copy verbatim from a book.  That didn't work in elementary school
>>and it does not work here.

>I see you are still annoyed by my references to articles in nuclear
>engineering journals which specifically contradicted the "facts" you
>had presented in this forum.

Oh, you mean like USC publications?  Teehee.  I'm beside myself with
mirth.

>BTW, I see that now Pat Buchanan is no longer campaigning, you've decided to
>use "eco-nazi"  as a pejorative again. Pat would no doubt be upset to
>learn of the faithlessness of his followers.

Hey yackadam.  Check your memory.  I never quit using eco-nazi.  It is 
much too descriptive to abandon.

I like to think it was the other way around, that Pat learned from people
like me.  I can understand how you'd make that mistake.  Since you follow
along puppet-like on the coattails of the USC and company and rely
only on information you read, it is natural to expect you to act like
a peon forever looking for the leader.  Some of us don't need someone else
to think for us.  Amazing, no?


John

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