1) The world's first nuclear-powered windmill is reported in the highly recommended NLAS Newsletter (Box 354, Murrysville, PA 15668; subscription rate: 2 letters/month to your congressman). Just as in the well known cartoon, the antinuclear U. of Wisc. Students Assn. planned a rock concert powered by the sun, but when they found out they would need 2 acres of solar collectors, they settled for three windmills. There was no wind, but the windmills turned anyway (one backward), because the generators were acting as motors and utility power was running both the amplifiers and the windmills (including the one hooked up backward). Since 32% of Madison's power comes from nuclear plants, the UWSA wizards may lay claim to having achieved the world's first nuclear-powered windmill, and beyond that, to have given a new slant to the Orwellian slogan Ignorance is Power!
2) "As an adult, living human being, my body contains natural radioactivity; 0.1 microcuries of potassium 40 and 0.1 microcuries of carbon 14. According to the current rules of the NRC, if I were a laboratory animal who had received this amount of radioactivity as "by-product material" and died with the radioactivity still in my body, I could not be buried, burned or disposed of in the garbage."¾Nobel Prize winner Dr Rosalyn S. Yalow testifying in a congressional hearing, 7 Nov. 1979. Full text available for a donation from AMPS, Box 501, Manchester, NH 03105.
3) Why are there more opponents of nuclear power among women than men?
One reason is that Nader, Caldicott & Co have made greater efforts to brainwash them: They keep plugging their blunders in Redbook, Ladies'Home Journal and Ms, but not in (say) Guns and Ammo or True. Rebuttals by qualified experts of these articles also from AMPS (donation, please!).
4) How to write pro-nuclear letters to the editor: Write C. Calamia, AIF, 7101 Wisconsin Ave., Washington, DC 20014; her letter of 2/5/80 also includes addresses of scientists to consult on technical matters, which will complement our "scientists' truth squads" nicely. Speakers on nuclear (and other) energy, state by state, are listed in The Communicators, $12 from ANS, 555 N. Kensington Ave., LaGrange Park, IL 60525.
5) Nuclear radiation exposure in Britain, from Report R-77, British National Radiological Protection Board, is summarized below. "Disposal of radioactive waste" includes all releases from the nuclear industry (0.15% of total).
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6) Carter's message on nuclear wastes is a campaign gimmick intended to appease everybody: the energy advocates because it promises action needlessly stalled for decades, and the antinukes on everything else, especially the shutdown of WIPP in New Mexico. Spent fuel rods now stored at power plants are not waste; high and low level wastes are two utterly different issues; future generations will benefit from the absence of wastes that nuclear wastes replace with a volume reduced by millions and a toxicity that is comparatively shortlived. To avoid being taken in by halftruths and falsehoods, get The Non-Problem of Nuclear Wastes, $2 ($1.50 for current AtE subscribers
¾so state) from Golem Press, Box 1342, Boulder, CO 80306.
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Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 7 Issue/No.: Vol. 7, No. 7 Date: March 01, 1980 03:17 PM Title: Berrigan's Law
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