Stuff I learned from the pro-nuclear crowd...

[JackRiddler]

(Ah, I say this is worth its own post.)

1) The Maginot Line is impenetrable.

2) Waste? What waste?

3) It's all right to play Russian roulette with New York City.

4) What I mean is, the odds of a meltdown are just soooooooooooo low, although no one can say with plant designs that are no more than 20 years old, but it must be sooooooo low. And you're really hypocritical to mention the chance on a medium that requires electricity.

5) No matter how complex the system, all possible accidents over a decade or a century's time can be foreseen and prevented through good design and conscientious operation. Also true for two centuries. Also three centuries...

6) Enron is not a typical energy company. Stories of corporate malfeasance and negligence and preventable technical failures apply in every industry except the nuclear, which is perfectly well-regulated and totally conscientious about its meticulous standards.

7) Nuclear power is, apparently, the first activity in the history of mankind never to result in any deaths whatsoever. Zero, zip. All claims to the contrary are hearsay by fearful, bitter and pre-modern cave-hippies. If you can't prove it in court, it cannot be. Nuclear power has killed less people than playing bridge.

8) The only accident that ever happened was Chernobyl. That was a commie meltdown. A Western meltdown cannot possibly happen.

9) Chernobyl's not uninhabitable, since lots of plants and animals live there. And they love it!

10) Accidents and leaks revealed decades after they occur don't count. Neither do leaks that were announced in advance. Those are controlled.

11) Waste? What waste?

12) Hey, hippie, you like that electric guitar? Gotcha!