On 12/22/2011 10:57 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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... Apply for a permit for a nuke plant and see how many years to
process is and how much it will cost....

Nuclear vs fossil really has almost no bearing on the difficulty in
permitting/licensing any more.

Our local generation co-op has been trying for 10 years now to build a
new coal-fired station and has had one obstacle after another placed in
way. Even though initial plans included a demonstration "green"
algae-based biomass project and the plant contains the highest level
(even exceeding latest EPA emission standards) there's simply no
satisfying the naysayers...their objective isn't clean progress; it's to
stifle any development at all.

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