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dpb

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the industrys propoganda machine must of been working overtime

Virtually none of it was "industry's" doing.

One of the charges in the legislation establishing the original AEC
(precursor of NRC) was the promotion of nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes. It was a national policy objective pretty much generally
accepted at the time.

Most of the farfetched notions were, however, dreamed up by the kinds of
folks mentioned above -- the writers and editors for popular "science"
and technology rags of the time. Some of these did get occasional
exposure in the more mainstream publications, unfortunately.

Now, of course, the movement of which haller is a prime example dredge
up every source they can possibly find to raise as a red herring and
example of "lying" or other malfeasance by presenting science fiction or
outlandish conjecture as fact.

It's the same thing as the other article he just posted -- not a single
actual factual argument--merely a stringing together of one half-truth
or innuendo or in some cases outright fraud as if it proved a
preconceived conclusion conclusively. Of course, there's no way one can
actually have a rational discussion w/ any of these folks -- as haller
shows, they simply dodge from one assertion to another, never have to
build a defensible scientific or engineering analysis that a
hypothetical situation could even be possible, assert "coulda's" or "may
haves" willy-nilly as fact and even worse. When called on any
particular item, they simply ignore the point and go to the next
strawman on the list. After a while, they then go back to somewhere
earlier in the list and repeat.

If it weren't for the fact they are doing great harm to the development
of a rational energy policy as well as postponing doing something useful
for environmental abatement of combustion gases and emissions, not to
mention causing an even more rapid depletion of our oil and gas
reserves, it would, as noted before, almost be funny to watch.

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