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“Take fire for example,” he said. “One flaming arrow over the wall ... starts the whole village on fire and a lot of people die. So that means we shouldn’t use fire for cooking and heating? No, it doesn’t. It means we should stop killing people with fire.”
And the same concept applies to nuclear energy.
Moore, 60, spoke to about 200 people at the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts Thursday afternoon, during the Victoria Economic Development Corporation’s semi-annual membership meeting.
The former head of Greenpeace, Moore once advocated against nuclear energy.
That was a mistake, though, said Moore, who later founded environmental policy group Greenspirit.
“Nuclear energy has huge benefits for the future,” he said.
Gary Worsham said he walked into the Welder Center with two major concerns – safety and the health aspects associated with nuclear energy. After the presentation, he said, his mind is more at ease.
“He addressed both of those,” said Worsham, senior vice president and regional trust manager with Wells Fargo’s Private Client Services.
Moore discussed safety issues, such as the notorious 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown in Pennsylvania and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Three Mile Island was due to a human error, he said, which can no longer happen because of technological advances. And increased safety measures were added to other Russian plants.
It’s safer to work in a United States nuclear plant than in real estate or financial services, Moore said to a chuckling crowd. Moore pointed to Columbia University study of 54,000 nuclear plant workers showed they had less cancer, disease and lived longer lives than others in the general population.
“It’s almost as if a little bit of radiation is good for you,” he said. “It’s actually probably because nuclear plant workers are higher educated than the average person,” he said, “they are very acutely aware of safety considerations because that is the No. 1 job in the nuclear plant, so they probably look after their diet and exercise a little bit better than the average person.”
Cally Fromme said that after watching the presentation, she feels better about the possibility of a nuclear plant finding its way to Victoria County.