Re: Either Bush Acts To Help California, Or, He's "George W. Hoover"

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:32

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JALB wrote:
> > Please multiply that by the number of fatal car accidents per year and
> > then factor in debilitating injuries and suffering.  Then compare with
> > the number of such 100,000-death nuclear disasters to be expected, per
> > year.
> 
> OK, there's about 40,000 nationwide deaths per year in auto-related accidents.
> Let California have 10% of that, or 4,000 deaths per year. Cut that in
> half to 2,000 for each of our two operational nuclear plants. Now you
> make a public policy decision on how much safer nukes have to be considering
> it will kill 50 times more people in a few days and weeks than car accidents
> over the course of a year.

How much safer?  The 2000 automobile deaths are a near-certainty.  How
about we make nuclear power ten times safer than automobiles?  Is that
good enough?

That would put the risk of a nuclear disaster at each plant about 1/500
per year.  Do you believe that to be realistic?

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From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
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Subject: Re: Either Bush Acts To Help California, Or, He's "George W. Hoover"
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