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nuclear plant was builtonanearinquake fault. Reynolds admitted that the plant should not have been built there, but saw no danger because the plant was designed to take an earthquake and the fault was several million years old and fairly inactive. Gregg argued that Reynolds’s claims everything will be safe if everything works correctly, but “nothing ever works-correctly.” Gregg then jumped on the fear of misuse of nuclear energy by other countries. Reynolds could only hope that international politics would avert any holocaust. Gregg saw martial law as the only political safeguard against nuclear power.
Finally from the audience, Washington Mayor and cabinetmaker Peter Kramer burst out about how he wished “the scientists would stop trying to ruin my life.” Then to Reynolds, he angrily asked if he saw anything “rosy” in the future with all these dangerous technological discovModerator
Peter Labowitz did not give Reynolds time to answer. “There is no place to run,” said Labowitz. “There is no place to escape technological change, so we must try to control it and make it safe.” Reynolds agreed, but Gregg made a few more stabs about how un-democratic it all was, and that was that.D
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