Re: a thought -Electric Supply Issues

[RadiumProj@cs.com]

In a message dated 4/26/00 10:34:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
sandyfl@earthlink.net writes:

<< n this day and age where an individual now has the right to chose 
 their electric provider as part of deregulation, wouldn't it be nice 
 if there were a way to simply throw a switch that would prohibit all 
 of the anti-nuclear individuals from receiving any power that 
 originated from a nuclear power generating station. It's highly 
 hypocritical to use and benefit greatly from the same power option 
 that they strive so hard to eliminate for all other members of the 
 general public. 
 
 As posted over a console within a nuclear power control room, "Let 
 the bastards freeze in the dark"! >>
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Back in the 1970s, a Japanese utility [it may have been Kansai Electric} shut 
off the electric supply to a town opposing the siting of a nuclear plant and 
issued a press release that the interuption of electric supply was taken so:

"That they may keenly appreciate the need for electric energy..."

This was reported in Environment Magazine circa 1972.

Stewart Farber
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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