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To: BILL_C; chimera
I stand corrected. Rush is right. I Googled it and verified that indeed Kennedy's car has killed more people than commercial US nuclear power. Thanks.
42 posted on 07/21/2008 2:44:19 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy)
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To: LiberConservative
It's a subtle difference. But most people associate nuclear safety with commercial power generation.

Besides the SL-1 incident, there have been criticality accidents associated with nuclear technology development. There were a couple in the Manhattan Project. There was one a few years ago in Japan. There have been a couple of fatalities associated with commercial irradiators that use radioactive sources or accelerators. In general, these are exceedingly rare accidents, especially compared with risks we accept on a daily basis (driving cars, climbing ladders, etc.) that have higher fatality rates.

50 posted on 07/22/2008 5:42:54 AM PDT by chimera
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