“A single accident releasing radiation into the environment could cost tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up, and could kill and injure hundreds of people (according to Dr. Marvin Resnikoff of Radioactive Waste Management Associates, a graduate of the University of Michigan nuclear science department).”
-Nuclear Information and Resource Service
What purpose, other than scaring people, is served by speculating on the number of people killed by the physically impossible?
By the way, Jan Peczkis is a graduate of the Northeastern Illinois University Geology Department. That doesn’t mean that Northeastern endorses any of his strange ideas, but the above internationally-prominent anti-nuclear group apparently feels the need to associate one of their creationist-style “independent researchers” with a credible educational institution. Note: Northeastern, nicknamed “Northeasy” and/or “Northleastern” by many Chicagoans (including its students) is essentially a diploma mill; it’s basically one step up from the City Colleges. Peczkis is notable in that he is the only major “creation scientist” who has a degree from an actual secular institution instead of a “degree” in “biology” from a bible college.
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Posted on May 11, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
