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  1. Newsgroups: sci.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Is nuclear energy "polluting"? (was Re: Is car pooling for real?
  5. In-Reply-To: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu's message of 26 Jul 92 01:11:26 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul25193152@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <1992Jul25.044333.9776@sugra.uucp> <50876@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  11.     <JMC.92Jul25115938@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <50894@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  12. Date: 25 Jul 92 19:31:52
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  15. Well, I didn't think I would be in agreement with Victor Yodaiken
  16. for very long.  According to what I read in _Nuclear News_, the
  17. French breeder program is not considered by them an abysmal failure,
  18. although it has had many more difficulties than expected.
  19.  
  20. Anyway, what's the point.  Does Victor Yodaiken think that breeder
  21. reactors cannot be made to work?
  22.  
  23. Carter made two bad decisions.  The first was to cancel the American
  24. Clinch River Breeder Project, which was obsolete because of the
  25. delays imposed by legal guerrilla warfare.  (The antis found a judge
  26. who said that an environmental impact statement for building the
  27. reactor was inadequate.  Since one thing might lead to another, the
  28. environmental impact statement had to cover a whole economy based
  29. on breeder reactors.)  His other bad decision was to cancel reprocessing
  30. of spent fuel rods to separate the uranium, plutonium, etc. from
  31. the fission products.
  32. --
  33. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  34. *
  35. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  36.  
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