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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.energy,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Is nuclear energy "polluting"? (was Re: Is car pooling for real?
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 00:09:58 GMT
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- carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
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- >Most of the radiation damage (to environment and/or humans) is due
- >to military plants and military projects. In USA, that is.
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- >The problems w/ civilan power plants include shoddy workmanship and
- >a total failure to include the projected cost of shutdown in the
- >original bid.
-
- No. Shoddy workmanship is so rare that you actually hear about each
- case on the news. Think about that for a moment. Think about why
- you rarely hear about shoddy workmanship in cars, houses and so on
- in the news. The cost of decomissioning is collected every day
- as a percentage of revenue generated.
-
- >There's a nuke plant in MA which is old and creaky; the estimated cost
- >to shutdown, dismantle, etc. is something like 20X the fab cost. This
- >seemed crazy to me-- it would be cheaper to keep it offline and
- >permanently manned, guarded, etc. So it goes.
-
- Turn the numbers into constant dollars and it is much less crazy.
- Then remember that when that plant was built, the econazis did not
- yet exist. I'm convinced that "econazius americanus" is came from a
- genetic mutation caused by simultaneously too much Jimmi Hendrix,
- bad acid, breathing draft card smoke and having sex in the
- back of a clapped out MicroBus.
-
- John
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