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By MARK HELMKE
AN ESTABLISHED technocrat rjid an erstwhile politician agreed that nuclear energy is dangerous, at the Nether’s Community School’s sixth seminar on alternative power sources at the Rappahannock County Elementary School Friday night, July 25. But the erstwhile politician was angry about his contention that nuclear energy was being shoved down the throats of an unwitting populace who could not be trusted to handle the very dangerous power source. The technocrat, on the other hand, expressed the fear that politicians might mess up the safeguards against human error that technology will be sure to discover, making nuclear power safe, clean and efficient.
Neither argument was very encouraging. The technocrat, Professor Albert B. Reynolds, had all the right credentials—Oak Ridge, General Electric, Nuclear Regulatory Agency, and now with the University of Virginia. His specialty is nuclear safety. He assured everyone technology will solve any problems with nuclear energy. He had the facts and was articulate.
The erstwhile politician, Dennis Gregg, however had few facts. He based his arguments on emotional assumptions—which are usually pretty good to go on in a nuclear debate, but Gregg was cocky. Gregg would shake his head, wince and act up for his friends in the audience while Reynolds spewed out facts. “You’re just wrong, and that’s that,” Gregg’s whole attitude said.
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