<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have long been a member of that U.S. Science Group; it has done useful service and has a useful function, but its position on nuclear power has been negative for a long while using cost as an crucial argument—i.e., they cost too much. The sentence …<i>scientists said </i><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">they needed to do more to ensure that future quakes don't risk the </font></i><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">kind of reactor impact that Japan is now grappling with… <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">doesn't carry much weight unless one knows which scientists are being quoted. Lyman and UCS has been long antagonistic to nuclear power. --mkb</span></font></i><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"></span></font></i><br><div><div>On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The massive earthquake that forced the closure of four nuclear power<br>plants in Japan has highlighted the grave risk of inadequate back-up<br>generators at U.S. facilities, a leading U.S. scientist group said on<br>Friday.<br><br>While the U.S. regulator made clear that the national nuclear fleet is<br>built to withstand the biggest earthquakes in history, scientists said<br>they needed to do more to ensure that future quakes don't risk the<br>kind of reactor impact that Japan is now grappling with.<br><br>"We do not believe the safety standards for U.S. nuclear reactors are<br>enough to protect the public today," Edwin Lyman, senior scientist,<br>global security programs, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told<br>Reuters. The group supports nuclear power as a means to combat global<br>warming, but wants tougher safety measures.<br><br>- Reuters: Scientists Say Japan Quake Shows US Nuclear Risk<br><a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/technology/8998257/scientists-say-japan-quake-shows-us-nuclear-risk/">http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/technology/8998257/scientists-say-japan-quake-shows-us-nuclear-risk/</a><br><br><br>On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher@illinois.edu> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Given the damage to Japanese nuclear reactors from the earthquake, what do<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you think would happen to the nuclear reactor down the road in Clinton, IL,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">if a similar quake should occur along the New Madrid fault? --CGE<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Peace-discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br>www.justforeignpolicy.org<br>naiman@justforeignpolicy.org<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br>Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>