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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:59:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.234321.28329@netcom.com> <1993Jan21.213546.6235@vexcel.com> <1993Jan22.093901.13563@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.093901.13563@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.213546.6235@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan20.234321.28329@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
- >>>How about the several Greenpeace press releases demanding an immediate
- >>>ban on all use of chlorine compounds. ("You there! Put down that salt
- >>>shaker or we'll shoot!!")
- >
- >>I have always heard it referred to as the chlorine manufacturing
- >>industry (which provides chlorine by separating salts), or as
- >>organochlorines. In any case, the call is for a phase out of
- >>such chemicals.
- >>
- >>Is your objection to the confusion with salt, or with the overall
- >>position against organochlorines?
- >
- >The confusion with salt (Or, more to the point, the fact that whoever
- >writes Greenpeace's press releases is blissfully unaware that salt is a
- >chlorine compound) is just an exceptionally vivid reminder that
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- You seem to really believe that either A) table salt is manufactured
- in an industrial process that uses chlorine, or that B) when someone
- speaks against the use of some chemical in industry, that constitutes a
- demand that the chemical should be eliminated from the environment.
- Neither of these is true.
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- >Even if they make a special exception for table salt, as I sit here
- >thinking about the pervasiveness of chlorine compounds in the chemical
- >industry... the mind boggles. Moderates think I'm exaggerating
- >to the point of ranting when I say the hard-core greenies want to
- >put an end to industrial civilization. Unfortunately, it's not an
- >exaggeration.
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- Please tell us what other industrial uses of chlorine you have in mind.
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