[lbo-talk] Nuclear Energy Advocates Insist U.S. Reactors Completely Safe Unless Something Bad Happens

[Dennis Claxton]

>WASHINGTON­Responding to the ongoing nuclear 
>crisis in Japan, officials from the Nuclear 
>Regulatory Commission sought Thursday to 
>reassure nervous Americans that U.S. reactors 
>were 100 percent safe and posed absolutely no 
>threat to the public health as long as no 
>unforeseeable system failure or sudden accident were to occur.

We are all postcatastrophists now.