The current harsh winter, like the 1980 Texas heat wave, has been remarkably free of antinuclear protests.
In 1978, it took some time for the story to leak through the rigid censorship by the press, but we suspect that this year it could turn out to be similar, even if total catastrophe may not have been imminent as it was on the morning of January 17, 1978: With the coal piles frozen, the coal and oil barges paralyzed in river ice, the all-weather nukes from New England to Illinois must once again have saved the Midwest and North-East. Certainly Chicago could not have survived without its nuclear power; and nationwide, more than 200 people lost their lives in the cold weather, presumably because they failed to equip themselves with windmills or got caught in blizzards without solar collectors.
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Vol. 9, No. 7
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 9, No. 7 Date: November 23, 2004 01:33 PM Title: Energy and Repression
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