1) Fear of radiation would quickly be banned with a survey meter (measuring radiation dose rates) if it were sensitive enough to measure radiation in the home and in nature, yet cheap enough to be a household item. There is none. Available meters cost $100 (or $400 if you go to the wrong place), and they measure comparatively high levels
¾from 1 milliroentgen/hour up. Now, however, you can make your own meter¾ not any more sensitive, but for under $15. Detailed instructions are in the appendix to Nuclear War Survival Skills by C.H. Kearney, with a preface by Edward Teller, $8.50 from American Security Council Educ. Foundtn., Boston, VA 22713. The book, of course, has far wider uses and implications than the radiation meter. It could be a small world without the guys who didn't want to spend the $8.50.2) Dr Henry Hurwitz' superb article Are energy-efficient homes more radioactive than nuclear meltdowns? has been updated, expanded, and provided with more figures. We seriously urge all readers to write for it in order to arm themselves with the technical knowledge to combat a blatant injustice by legal and political inconsistency. Free from the author at General Electric CR&D, Bldg.K1, Rm.3C36, PO Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301.
3) Foreign Affairs is not the kind of journal to allow a genuine rebuttal of Lovins' article on nuclear power and bombs; but an excellent rebuttal has been authored by Dr David Rossin; Nuclear Power Politics, obtainable for $3 from ANSPI, 555. Kensington Ave, La Grange Park, IL 60525.
4) The Struggle for Power is a 464-page book packed with eminently readable pro-nuclear information and graphics by John Grover, one of Australia's (indeed, the world's) most articulate defenders of nuclear power. Besides its wealth of information and illustrations, the book is of interest to Americans as one that shows the antinuclear movement no less rabid in a country that has no nuclear plants (only a few uranium mines far away in the "outback"). It is also important to learn from the Australian experience at a time when George Wald, Elise Boulding, the very reverend Sloane Coffin, and other racists are using the American Indian in the same way as the Australian Aborigine was used. Since the book often quotes this writer, etiquette demands that he coyly abstain from reviewing it. Etiquette be damned: It's a brilliant book. Australian $9.95 ($11.75 - plus postage?) from E.J. Dwyer Ltd., Kippax and Waterloo St., Surry Hills, N.S.W. 2010, Australia.
5) Risk and Other Four-Letter Words by W.B. Wriston is a most timely and readable short essay with obvious (but unmentioned) applications to energy; it is another in the IIER booklet series, with which readers of this newsletter are by now well familiar. It is followed by Treating Poverty: Wherein the Cure Gives Rise to the Disease; its author is the incomparable Tom Bethell whose articles in Harper's, The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications should not ever be missed
¾this is a good sample of his art. The booklets are available for 95 cents each from Green Hill Publishers, Box 738, Ottawa, IL 61350.6) Read through a list of organizations that maimed the CIA and the FBI in their "Campaign Against Government Spying, and you will be looking at a Who's Who in the Antinuclear Movement. That alone is reason enough to get Broken Seals ($4 from Western Goals, 309-A Cameron St., Alexandria, VA 22314); but there are far more reasons why to read and distribute this book. Contributions to Western Goals are tax deductible.
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Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 8, No. 6 Date: November 23, 2004 10:12 AM Title: Transition
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