[lbo-talk] How many worlds?

[John Thornton]

Bill Bartlett wrote:
> I presume these European green parties also promote nuclear weapons? 
> You have to admit, that's the cheapest way to dispose of nuclear 
> waste. Make a bomb, blow something up. Gone.
>
> Nuclear energy is in fact a mere by-product of the nuclear weapons 
> industry. No-one ever develops a nuclear energy industry unless they 
> want to develop nuclear weapons. Doesn't make any economic, let alone 
> environmental sense on its own, but you need nuclear power reactors to 
> develop the fuel for nuclear weapons. Might as well light some street 
> lamps with the power they produce.
>
> Those European green parties must practically glow in the dark? 

You don't know what you're talking about.
Sweden, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic all have nuclear power and 
do not use it for weapons development in any way.
I'd bet most nuclear energy producing states don't use their energy 
plants to develop weapons.
How much nuclear waste has been blown up through weapons? A nearly 
immeasurably small amount no doubt.
This is a silly claim all around.

Nuclear power makes as much economic sense as we want it to.
We want power we build nuclear plants and send power to homes.
We pay for it out of the public coffers.
Why should it be profitable any more than schools or parks?
We can safely store the waste but not under the current unequal system 
that demands both profitability from the operation and places a lower 
value on some human lives than on others with regards to waste disposal.
Address these issues and there is nothing unsafe or unsustainable about 
nuclear power.

John Thornton