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bringing up the 4,000 mentioned in the IAEA report, which is like asking Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld of writing up about the effects of the Iraq mess

I wouldn't liken IAEA to Dick and Bush... It is the only credible international organisation assessing effects of nuclear energy and proliferation.

I think IAEA does superb job, unfortunately Japan haven't been very cooperative with them thus far.

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Without nuclear power IAEA's "raison d'être" vanishes. Without the Iraq war Cheney and Rumsfeld wouldn't have won the 2004 elections.

But the nuclear power is already here and was for last 60 years. You can't put the genie back into bottle, unless we're going to have nuclear war and humankind will be reduced to stone age level, which incidentally is one of the things IAEA tries to prevent.

So we need to have responsible, transparent and safe nuclear power, and IAEA is the only organisation that tries to ensure that on a global level, IMHO.

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