They aren't a threat of nuclear war anymore than they were before and they
should have the "gist" of safety with reactors down now so they'd be about
as
much a problem or risk as our reactors or missiles here (ignoring 3 Mile Island
of course).
Richard Erlacher wrote:
I agree, fundamentally, with what you say. I just
don't see how letting
what's essentially becoming a third-world nation after fifty years of being
a technological leader, freeze because it displeases US for them to run
their flawed reactor, for which they've already paid, is gong to help
anyone, especially since they can't just build a replacement with any
technology.
Surviving to get there is more important than having a pristine "there" to
get. It doesn't matter if we're all surely going to die if we're already
dead.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] They're restarting Chernobyl?
<It's just a different outlook, doncha know
. . . they're looking at a
reall
><cold winter for which they need the power to survive. If they don't
><survive, it's not going to help them that their grandchildren will have a
><cleaner planet, since their grandchildren will freeze too.
>
>Well, what you don't know. Chernobyl is 4 plants, one crashed due to
>operator error. It was a hell of a mess that will take a long time to
>disappear. In the meantime people are cold and hungry. Maybe it's not
>right but, neither is sick people. Right now that country is trying to
>make it as something other than communist I think they have enough right
>at that.
>
>Allison
>