From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 17:38:49 MST
Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003 21:45 schrieb Rafal Smigrodzki:
> This said, I really do not think that there is any appreciable risk
> from nuclear waste, whether in Europe or in the US. It's too easy to
> safely bury it underground, and there it does no harm.
Since I have been asked to prove my statements many times here, I really
miss any convincing proofs that this is "safe".
> The main challenges to nuclear power [...]
> are terrorism and the fact that the peaceful nuclear
> technologies can be easily subverted for weapon production. In the long
> run I would support nuclear energy only the international community
> ruthlessly destroys any regime which tries to develop it without
> adequate precations (inspections, direct, 24/7 surveillance, full
> transparency).
... which will probably lead to the "Atomstaat" (as the anti nuclear
power movement here used to call it in the 80s), meaning a state so much
driven by technological constraints, that individual rights and civil
liberties will have to be restrained by the authorities to keep the risks
(technological, political, criminal) under control - ruthlessly, as you
name it - in the name of "national security" - or "global security".
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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