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Re: Acceptable risks [was Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste]

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From: none Quarks like a duck
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00
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Don Libby <no.spam@tds.net> wrote:

>"D.A.Kopf" wrote:
>> 
>> One likely datum we would probably both stipulate: nuclear fission will never
>> provide a sustainable energy source for mankind.

>???  It is already providing a sustainable energy source for mankind. 
>Nuclear fission is sustainable for hundreds or thousands of years.  A
>large increase in the number of nuclear power plants can be expected
>beginning twenty to fifty years from now.

>-dl

Twenty-five years from now, the overwhelming proof will be that
nuclear power is mutating the human race into genetically defected
people.

Also, efficiency advances will make power consumption equal to today's
or even less.
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Subject: Re: Acceptable risks [was Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste]
Date: 2000/06/07
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