[Dean's World] Scott Kirwin: Daily Tech's Michael Asher Lays the Smackdown...

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Posted by Scott Kirwin:
Daily Tech's Michael Asher Lays the Smackdown...
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1187814068.shtml


   [1]On anti-nuclear activists.

     Environmental groups were even more shrill. The Sierra Club's
     anti-nuclear task force went into immediate overtime, demanding to
     know why the company wasn't fined, or even shut down. A SWAT team
     of Sierra Club activists descended upon the site, where they
     promptly organized public meetings for "concerned citizens," and
     called for the NRC to hold public hearings to explain their
     actions. Combining innuendo and hand-waving, they attempted to
     convince area residents their property and very lives were at
     stake.

     This, ladies and gentlemen, is why clean, cheap, safe nuclear power
     is dead on the vine in this country. It's why we still burn
     millions of tons of coal each year, despite the horrendous cost in
     environmental damage and the thousands of lives lost to coal
     mining. It's why widespread use of electric cars will still result
     in enormous amounts of toxic emissions, and why the "hydrogen
     economy" can never be practical.

   Michael Asher raises some intelligent points, especially in the
   comments section of the blog post writing as Masher2.

     If you live in a New England or Rocky Mountain state, you already
     have radioactive nuclear waste buried in your own backyard...waste
     left over from when Mother Nature made the planet. The first meter
     of topsoil in one acre alone contains 60 kg of thorium, 20 kg of
     uranium, 5 kg of radium, and 70,000 kg of potassium...all of it
     radioactive.

   Asher reminds me of Steven Den Beste, and he rebuts each statement
   critical of nuclear power with ease and aplomb. [2]Daily Tech isn't
   just a place to get geeky-info on the latest chips or software
   goings-on. It also keeps tabs on the latest developments in
   tech-related science fields. It's the way Slashdot used to be - and I
   consider it to be daily reading.

References

   1. http://www.dailytech.com/AntiNuclear+Forces+Manufacture+PsuedoScandal/article8546.htm
   2. http://www.dailytech.com/