Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), April 11, 1979, p. 16

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Page IS Till April II VIEWPOINT Of Maggie Trudeau and nuclear radiation llrrald columnist disaster and appear to be getting most of the this pail week Let look at the nuclear disaster have been arguing pro and con over the risk rs of power pi lie effects of predicted what cured the Three Mile Island plant in could never happen So much for the experts The main danger from a malfunction of a clear reactor Is the exposure to Eicr mail if radio I Karl Morgan of Institute of TeUwolo inotrwhcl of showing no sift of exposure is no dose of radmlinnsnlow the risk of in ihgnoncs is zero A such as that is ttcilcd lilt of hungry world Its irgulng is motor over horse nucli ir power will win more than per cent ill electric power in the Stales is produced in nuclear power plants Whenever you have anything that is man made run the risk of malfunction The hu factor is win re the real d ingtr lies are iccident in The liun an factor If it will caution us ignnibt In iting nuclear power tit proper respect Ted Taylor a nuclear physicist and former bomb designer warns against the prolifer ilion of nuclear weip- so my rtictors iround the world licensed with additio nal reactors on order or under construction there a high risk of misuse All nuclear reactors produce Plutonium that has been and purified in a repro cessing can be used for wejpons ind fuel Mil nuclcir power is like harnessing wild stallion sou may break him or he may break you its all In the handling Cm it again Arthur Porter of the Royal tommlsion on Electric Power Planning says The more dors you build the the of accident A built in risk but we must remember that we live In a world of risks Risks are a prict we pay for technology and believe that the benefits of our modern society out weigh the risks After all who can turn the wheel of progress in reverse with all Ihe motor accidents who would go back to the horse and buggy Our hunger for energy is growing steadily and that need will be answered by nuclear power though the risk is great it is the price we pay for the benefits wo reap Beyond Reason is the title Margaret new book Hiving read excerpts so far I can honestly say that we are getting a remarkable between the- lines portrait of Margaret and Pier re Trudeau Rather than hurt Pierre Trudeau I believe Mar book will do just the opposite There is much to be said for a man who can keep public composure in the face of such difficulties Margaret paints herself lo be very Immature and very vulnerable to life around her Her words even taking into account a possible dressing up of the facts for the benefit of the reading public shows her to have been a very lost sort of individual for many People lend to take sides and expect certain behaviour from the rich and famous they forget that people in the public eye are people and some- make It No one has payed as great a price for the financial rewords Beyond Reason ill bring as Margaret Trudeou History has never been given such an Intimate look Into the Uvea of a Prime Minister and his wife and family Margaret Trudeau is giving us a close look at the after life of a flower child and I doubt that other lower children have conducted their lives with very much difference The life of public figures is a very lonely one Betty recently announced her addict Ion alcohol Margaret Is announcing in Beyond Eon emotional weakness and drug abuse She shows herself as a lost child a woman who has never grown up and though we can gel very angry with a child we usually forgive them because they are just children I hope the Canadian public will do the same with Margar Trudeau she deserves sympathy nothing more noth ing less Radio hack DIVISION TANDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED The system youve been waiting for is on sale now Whatever your favourite Realistic system weve got it here at Radio shack at a whopping price reduction The choice is strictly up to you when you select any complete system receiver turntable or record changer and two speakers from our line of stereo components youve got yourself a deal at off the regular separate item price as listed in our 1979 catalogue Guelph Street Georgetown Mir V Direct to disc recordings Enjoy your new system with live quality reproduction of a o disc record ing And even not purchasing a system lake lane of A Sound Odyssey or II 508502 this terrific sale price 8777001

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