[OT] They're restarting Chernobyl?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_creative-net.net>
Date: Sat Nov 27 23:06:06 1999

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_at_world.std.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_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
> >
Received on Sat Nov 27 1999 - 23:06:06 GMT