Re: California electric rates are getting ridiculous

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 ;(
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