DAN: Hello. I'm Dan Aykroyd, Station Manager for Weekend Update.Yesterday, a federal jury awarded $10.5 million to the estate of Karen Silkwood, a 28

year old laboratory technician contaminated by radiation in 1974 while employed at a Kerr-McGee Corporation plutonium plant. The verdict could have a negative impact on the future of the nuclear power industry already clouded by the Three-mile Island incident.

This will be the subject of tonight's Point/Counterpoint. Jane will take the anti-nuclear point, and I will take the pro-nuclear counterpoint.

JANE: Dan, you self-important swineass, there's no future for nuclear energy because Three-mile Island taught everybody what some of us already knew: That nuclear power plants are time bombs ready to melt down.

And, even if nuclear power plants were safe, which they aren't, there's still the potentially more dangerous nuclear waste problem. But you don't care about waste, Dan. You're content to wallow in the short-term profits the corporate pigs reap for themselves. But, unlike real pigs, the corporate animals haven't learned that you don't excrete where you eat and that their radioactive excrement will be with us for 250,000 years. That's one pile you just can't flush down the toilet, Dan.

DAN: Jane, you magnificently ignorant slut, aren't the gas lines in California proof enough that the energy crisis is for real? Nuclear energy provides 12 percent of our nation's electricity. And who'd be the first to complain when the electricity goes out, Jane? You and your horde of promiscuous anti-nuclear harpies. I can just see you now, sitting alone in your darkened apartment staring forlornly at your now-useless vibrator. You'll be humming a different tune, then, Jane.

But let's talk about risks for a minute, Jane. Sure, nuclear power has risks, even though there has yet to be an industry-related fatality. But, even so, this is not a risk-free society. Where's your liberal compassion when coal miners die in the mines? And how about the 50,000 a year killed on our nations highways? You undergo a bigger risk of cancer taking one of your birth control pills, Jane, than you would living next door to an atomic plant, and all for the convenience of hopping indiscriminately from bed to bed with your fellow (indiscernible) loopies.

As for the waste problem, Jane, I for one have confidence in good, old American technology. You just don't understand the scientific mind. Let us thank God Almighty that this country has dedicated, sober scientists solving our problems for the long nights while ignorant sluts like yourself writhe in coitus at anti-nuclear toga parties.

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