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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 10:15 AM
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26. I'm sure you do.
Edited on Sat Nov-04-06 10:24 AM by NNadir
I'll add you to the list of people who don't have a clue about the scale of climate change and who cannot begin to grasp risk based analysis, the fact that all energy involves risk but that nuclear had extraordinarily low risk.

People in this class were important a few decades ago in creating the situtation that has led to the great catastrophe of climate change. Of course, in the 1970's these people had a shred of credibility because the industrial practice of nuclear energy was untested and new. However it is three decades later and the risks and benefits of nuclear power are well understood from practice.

The risk of doing nothing through permanent and unyielding and uncritical appeal to all kinds of magical suppositions about biofuels, solar and other similar industrially unimportant energy sources is very great, which is why the world has rejected the anti-nuclear argument. We simply can't take the enormous risk of doing nothing but talk.

I'm sure you know that I don't care what you think.
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