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.cb NUCLEAR AND OTHER HAZARDS

Hazards to life from Bernard Cohen, L.A. Times June 4, 1978
.NOFILL

Activity						days of life expectancy lost
							from pursuing an activity for
							the rest of one's life

Riding in cars (10,000 miles/yr)			∂(55) 200
Not using seat belts					∂(55)  50
Driving small cars					∂(55)  50
Smoking one pack/day					∂(55)2200
Overeating by 200 calories/day				∂(55) 400
Being one pound overweight				∂(55)  30
One diet drink/day					  ∂(55)    2.5
Fire							∂(55)  30
Drowning						∂(55)  40
Being poisoned						∂(55)  20
Choking on food						∂(55)  12
Being asphyxiated					∂(55)   7
Struck by falling object				∂(55)   6
Electrocution						∂(55)   6
Lightning						∂(55)   6
Being bitten by an animal or insect			  ∂(55)    0.3
Being murdered						∂(55)  90
Consuming nuclear electricity (if it were all nuclear)	   ∂(55)   0.05
Consuming electricity from coal				∂(55)  15
Air pollution (all sources)				∂(55)  25
Being male rather than female				∂(55)2700
Remaining unmarried					∂(55)1800
Working as a coal miner					∂(55)1500

.FILL
"When there's a will to lose, obstacles can be found" - late 20th century
eco-proverb

"If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for
us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy
because of what we would do with it.  We ought to be looking
for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't
give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could
do mischief to the earth or to each other."
- Amory Lovins in %2The Mother Earth%1 - Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p. 22

"...Giving society cheap, abundant energy ... would be the equivalent
of giving an idiot child a machine gun."  Paul Ehrlich, %2An Ecologist's
Perspective on Nuclear Power%1, May/June 1975 issue of
Federation of American Scientists Public Issue Report

"We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and
great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we
should be making anyhow for other reasons." - Russell Train,
former EPA Administrator,
%2Science%1 184 p. 1050, 7 June 1974

Scientists for Enlightenment on Nuclear Sources of Energy - Stanford Chapter