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Grimly Curmudgeon  
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 More options 9 May 2008, 21:00
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From: Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 21:00:24 +0100
Local: Fri 9 May 2008 21:00
Subject: Re: Chimay 2008
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> saying
something like:

>>>Radiation: not nearly as nasty as people think it is.

>>If you buy that line, you're swallowing the nuke lobby's gropapanda.

>Actually, I got it all from a Horizon programme.

>The think is, the graph of radiation vs cancer risk is all derived
>from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  As the doses there were high, there was
>no data at the low doses end - the working assumption has been that
>the relationship can be extrapolated in a straight line down to zero.
>The Chernobyl data is suggesting that below a certain threshold, the
>impact is in fact much lower.

There *might* be something to that, but I'll reserve judgement until
more figures are in. I'm not anti-nuke, and I would like to see safe,
clean Nu Kleer power being generated in a responsible manner. Nothing
has yet been done to meet the challenge of long-term storage or
obliteration of nuclear waste, though, and that's a biggie.

<cue darsy and rail-gun to the sun>

I wish they'd pull their fingers out and get on with fusion.

Of course, every new nuke facility would have to be surrounded by armed
rent-a-cops 24/7 because of the world situation, but that's not new.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
 How much more suspenseful can you get?"
 - House


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