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- From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us?
- Organization: Save the Humans!
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 06:38:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.063847.17417@truffula.sj.ca.us>
- Summary: drivel!
- References: <1992Dec17.201220.11260@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1h3797INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> <b7PS02gG2ft901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- In article <b7PS02gG2ft901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jjh00@diag.amdahl.com
- (Joel Hanes) writes:
- > carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- >>
- >> Who was hurt at three mile island?
- >
- >No one. The reactor accident at Three Mile Island cannot be shown
- >to have harmed any person in any way whatsoever. Fact.
-
-
- Clearly, Mr. Hanes is not a General Public Utilities ratepayer;
- that group is still paying.
- The financial damage to the community served by the reactor was
- substantial: electric rates rose by over 40% as the operator passed
- some of the costs of the failure to its consumers.
- A reasonable person might conclude that community was harmed.
-
- Nor, it seems, is Mr. Hanes an investor in nuclear power. (Excluding
- emotional investment, of course!) That coverup (you do remember the
- coverup, don't you, Joel?) and its failure dealt a crippling blow to
- the dying nuclear fission business: after the WPPS default and the
- attempted TMI coverup, no North American securities analyst will ever
- again take seriously the platitudes and assurances of the fission
- industry's spokespersons (and rightly so, say I). A multibillion
- dollar industry, born of the second Red Scare and killed by its own
- insane hubris!
- A reasonable person might conclude the GPU bondholders were harmed.
- Then again, we could say their loss was a well-deserved lesson.
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- Cameron Spitzer in San Jose
-
- *** He who forgets history is doomed to talk nonsense, too.
-