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- From: gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark)
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- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:22:13 GMT
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- Well,there's an awful lot of self-indulgence going on here,isn't
- there? Wouldn't it be nice if someone addressed the issues for a change?
- Would anyone,for instance,like to challenge the view that
- reprocessing spent fuel is expensive and polluting? If so,I think that
- they should argue with Scottish Nuclear,who don't want to reprocess fuel
- from their shiny new Torness reactors because it'd be silly to do so.
- As far as I can tell,the only reasons that people want to
- reprocess the stuff are the old "Strategic" ones.That was certainly the
- only reason Britain wanted to.
- And as for Greenpeace wanting to disrupt the process,I just have
- to say that I thought protest was one of these democratic rights.
- Certainly,in the event that one of these plutonium shipments did come a
- cropper -in a storm,on rocks,to a terrorist/freedom fighter/government
- action or whatever,I'm sure everyone will be eager to say that it was a
- silly idea.At the moment,we just don't know what the risks are of this
- happening.
-
- Also,to paint the French and Japanese Governments as holy and
- pure is a bit much.Neither have exactly shied away from getting their
- hands dirty in the past.
-
-
- G.
-