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Energy and ideology - Teller meeting oct 11

	Our object is to look at the objectors to nuclear energy
scientifically rather than merely polemically.  Of course, this
looks somewhat like %2ad hominem%1 arguments about the issue of
nuclear energy, but let us suppose that I am preaching here
to the converted - the reader is supposed to already believe
that nuclear energy is needed, cheap enough and safe enough.

	Here are some of the causes of anti-nuclear views:

fear - It exists, but it can't be the main explanation.  If fear were
the main objection, one would expect it to diminish with experience
of 2000 reactor years without fatalities and as the remembrance
of Hiroshima fades.  One would also expect the antis to be depressed
by the Three Mile Island accident rather than be exhilirated by it.

elitists object to losing their privileges to the masses - While it
is true that opposing is in the class itterests of well-to-do

favorite enemies (PG & E)

technological romantics

social romantics

claim on power and prominence

2. what can propaganda do
	who are the contending parties
	nuclear vs. other accidents (11 miners killed day after 3 mile)

3. loss of life from loss of money
	$200,000,000 is 60 lives

4. How come Urey doesn't agree?