"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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Nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, most efficient form of power
generation available at this time.


Absolutely correct. Hands down. Although undeniably, all the comments
about deaths from other energy sources aside--an incident with nuclear power
carries much further impact and potential for harm than from any other
source (currently in use). While deaths and environmental impact may be
higher in number than from nuclear incidents, I think it would be found that
nuclear power/nuclear anything has greater risk than is immediately
recognized.

Take a coal mine. At any one coal mine there are probably folks who have,
and who have already died from, black lung or other health diseases; there
have probably been some people maimed and killed from caves, and there have
probably even been some serious environmental effects from the mining of
coal. But, one (serious) incident at a nuclear power plant--take Chernobyl
since that's the worst in history--and you have generations of trouble: to
the environment, to disaster recovery; to ecnomical and infrastructure; and
we haven't even mentioned the immediate and long-term health effects.

Kim W5TIT