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Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Nuclear - weapons, electricity

There is an easy answer Randal!
 
All it takes is an explanation that getting rid of nuclear power will not get rid of nuclear weapons!!
 
How many of the world's nuclear powers have started from a civilian power reactor program and then gone on to develop weapons?
 
and while there are dual power/ plutonium production reactors how many have converted the fuel for electricity into weapons?
 
I'm not sure but I think the answer to both questions is one (north korea).
 
If we get rid of nuclear power the path to nuclear weapons is going to be the same as all the other countries followed.
 
On the other edge having nuclear power is a way to get rid of weapons (MOX etc.)
 
The hard part, as with all things we do, is getting enough people to listen to the facts instead of the dogmatic philosophy of the anti-nucler industry. 

Randal Leavitt <randal.leavitt@rogers.com> wrote:
The association of nuclear electricity with nuclear weapons is
worrisome. A lot of people would be willing to live without nuclear
power if that would get rid of nuclear weapons. No easy answers here.

And now we have nuclear terror:

The nuclear terrorism threat is real
By PHILIP GAILEY, Times Editor of Editorials
Published July 10, 2005
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/10/Columns/The_nuclear_terrorism.shtml

Maybe there is an answer here - give everyone a bubble detector for
neutrons. Anyone trying to drag a bomb into position will set
everyone's detectors to boiling. That should make this kind of
terrorism pretty difficult.

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