Hyperbole ?

[Brian Hawes]

Interesting comment, on our Radio tonight, made to someone who said we must abandon Nuclear Power:
"Nuclear power stations are dangerous when they go wrong; coal-fired power ststions are dangerous
when they go right."

Brian

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From: tacos-bounces+hawes=herald.ox.ac.uk at amrad.org [tacos-bounces+hawes=herald.ox.ac.uk at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Richard O'Neill [richardoneill at earthlink.net]
Sent: 15 March 2011 22:08
To: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Hyperbole ?

Hyperbole? It seems so - if one ascribes to this definition.

Apocalypse: "A cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil."

Richard


On 3/15/2011 4:56 PM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>From the Brisbane Times:


"Europe's energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger dubbed the nuclear disaster an "apocalypse", saying Tokyo had almost lost control of events at the Fukushima power plant.

"There is talk of an apocalypse and I think the word is particularly well chosen," he said in remarks to the European Parliament."





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