Sensible precautions can contain reaction

LIKE venereal diseases, it’s difficult to argue nuclear power effect differs vastly between civilian and military applications.

Both have common, attendant myths.

Painful premature unnecessary deaths, genetic mutations, weeping sores which don’t get better, these foolish things remind us the only certainties are in the minds of ill-informed, though perhaps well intentioned activists.

Physicists Marie and Pierre Curie pioneered nuclear research, particularly medical applications, though without the safety precautions which have since been applied.

Marie died of radiation complications, Pierre was killed by a horse and cart.

The risks of fatal exposure to uncontained radioactive elements have been all but eliminated, save for tea drinking Russian dissidents.

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