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On Feb 29, 8:33�pm, dpb wrote:
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:54:55 -0800 (PST), "
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i live within 50 miles of shippingport power station.
You probably enjoy reasonably-priced, if not CHEAP, electric
power.

not true at all, pittsburgh had some of the highest electric rates
in the nation, untill a few years ago, duquesne light sold off
power generation, rates dropped, now they are headed up agan big
time.........

around here nuke didnt equal low cost.

Back when Nuke power was first developed, there wre lots of glowing
(pun

intended) articles in every major publication touting it as being
able t
o
produce electricity "too cheap to meter". That was the standard
company
line.

They've been lying about it's benefits ever since.

The only significant cost factor has been the extended
design/license/build time that raised capital costs owing to
obstructionist tactics.

The actual fuel/incremental generation costs are extremely
competitive w/ any other baseload generation other than hydro.

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years ago duquesne light went into a power plant building boom, power
alley it was called. then 3 mile island occured, a partially built
nuke plant was abandoned, industry tanked in western pa, partially
built coal fired plants were abandoned too.......

all this building but not completing power plants created stranded
costs that raised duquesne light rates, which discouraged new industry
from coming here.

bring on the nuke plants, despite the industry the taxpayers will lean
on their congressional and state reps.........

build the plants in china, they truly need more electric.

here coal is a near forever supply./

far more people die mining coal than have from US nuclear power.
Then there's the emissions and pollution from coal burning.

plus our economy is well on its
way to tank. we wouldnt need nor be able to afford a bunch of new nuke
plants no matter how safe they are..........

have you researched pebble-bed reactors yet?

Face it,you really ignore how safe they actually are,and are just
unreasonably afraid.
You must live in fear of asteroid strikes,too.

i truly believe our economy is going to get very bad before it
improves at all


Shipping high paying jobs to Mexico by building nuke plants there certainly
isn't the answer.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net