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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.065946.20057@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 06:59:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.200320.7520@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul23.034645.2791@nmt.edu> <1992Jul24.205505.14538@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <50875@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <50875@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul24.205505.14538@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >> Just an observation. 'Let's have' is a command economy (communist)
- >> concept. We do things a bit more efficiently 'round these parts.
- >> It makes little sense to do such generation unless it is a priori
- >> profitable or competetive with the utilities. There is little
- >> intrinsic worth in an expensive distribution of power production
- >> to millions of sites, and there are many many drawbacks.
- >
- >We do things more efficiently around here? In what way is the AEC/NRC
- >an "efficient" organization? In what way have the major investors in
- >nuclear energy power supplies, e.g. WHOOPS and TVA, been either "efficient"
- >or not part of a "command economy". In what way have the major manufacturers
- >of US power plants been either "efficient" or under market discipline?
- >Is it your contention that when vast military/government
- >contracting corporations like Westinghouse and GE make deals with the
- >TVA to construct power plants which will use fuel enriched by the DOE,
- >mined on Federal land, to be put in power plants regulated by the AEC/NRC
- >with liablity limits set by federal fiat, and to be operated
- >by legally mandated monopolies, under federal laws pre-empting local and
- >state oversight , that this process is
- >in any ways "efficient" or "market driven"? Arguments which find
- >mass transit and government subsidies for efficiency to be "big brother"
- >while finding the corporate/state organization of nuclear energy to be
- >"free-market" driven, are truly strange.
-
- For once you are absolutely right Victor. Government interference in
- the power market *has* been a disaster. TVA should be sold. The NRC
- scaled back. Military and civilian nuclear programs should be
- totally separated. And all lawyers should be shot. Unfortunately, it's
- not a perfect world, and we have to deal with what we've got.
-
- Gary
-