Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, I was still afraid. I had read, though not on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, that .000001 grams of plutonium will cause lung cancer if inhaled, that each nuclear reaction produces about 200,000 grams of plutonium every year, and that plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years. The record of America's 67 licensed plants is replete with accounts of major spills, leaks, material unaccounted for, and narrowly averted catastrophic accidents...
...aside from all this, I think most people are afraid because radiation, and the technology needed to bring enough radiation together to produce 1300 megawatts of electricity, are just plain scary. If most people were not afraid, after all, that ad, aimed at frightened people, would not have been put on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times...
Indeed, even the conservative insurance companies are afraid, for they refuse to insure nuclear reactors. And the government must be afraid, because it will insure reactors for only $563 million, 1 per cent of the damage that would be caused by the worst credible accident. Beyond that, there is no liability for accident damage. It is a simple fact of the nuclear world that we cannot afford to be unafraid...
...afford to be just afraid any more...
...afford to be just afraid any more...