Frank wrote:
Phil Again wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:25:38 -0800, scorpster wrote:


...{Snip} If we
had nuclear power we'd only be paying a fraction of the price and it
would be good for the environment!!

I seem to recall that back in the Carter or Regan era there was an
attempt to build a fission plant in some mid-western state and the
Lawyer costs on both sides ran way more than the cost of actually
building the electrical plant. CBS's 60 minutes did a massive
hatchet job on the building plans for that power plant.

Teachers in grade school and middle school were teaching the evils of
fission power for generation of electrical power at this time. One
teacher tried to organize a class room writing exercises asking the
power plant not be build. (IIRC, I think this occurred in Madison,
Wisconsin but the plant was in another state, maybe Illinois)

Any discussion on the nuclear fission (boiling water by splitting
heavy atoms) *must* include cost of lawyers, cost anti-nuke media
counter- attacks by "Press-Spokespersons," and cost of lobbyist at
the Federal, State, and local levels. very $$$$$

You think your cost of electricity is high now? Just wait until the
lawyer's invoice from at least 1/3 of the lawyers in the San
Francisco Bay area comes in.

Just my opinion.

Greenies throw up any smoke screen they can think of. I remember a
big objection here was heat from reactor would raise water
temperature and hurt the fishies. Now, a few decades later, the same
people are crying about pollution from the big coal generator we
have, which would have never been needed if we got the nuke plant ;(

They raised the same objection about a NG-powered generating plant here. The
heated water (which travels about a mile through a canal to the bay) would
kill every living marine animal from Galveston to Mexico!

Turns out, the animals are not stupid! Those that don't like warm water go
elsewhere. Those that DO like warm water (i.e., shrimp) migrate to the
discharge canal. Those that like the things that like warm water (i.e.,
redfish) follow the shrimp and the fishermen follow them. Somedays it's
shoulder-to-shoulder along the banks of the canal!