RE: costs

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Actually, I think if you check you will find that Robert A. Heinlein used
the phrase about 20 years before that in one of his short stories:  "Blowups
Happen" which was published in Sep 1940, as I recall it.  I don't have it
near to hand, and I'm working off protein memory, so I may not be completely
accurate.


 Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

On Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:03 AM, Bob Flood
[SMTP:bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU] wrote:
> >If I remember a previous posting to RADSAFE correctly, the "too cheap to
> >meter" phrase was not initiated by anyone in the nuclear industry.  It
was
> a
> >catchy phrase developed by the media after an AEC hearing on Capitol
Hill.
> 
> The origin of the saying does lie within the nuclear industry. Aubrey
Wagner
> was the Chairman of the Board for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the
> 1970s and was more than an advocate of nuclear power, he was fan! At one
> time he envisioned TVA operating literally at least one of every
commercial
> reactor design available in this country and set about to make it happen.
> Most of the plants were eventually cancelled and TVA still carries a large
> debt as a result. But it was Aubrey Wagner that, in the 1960's, uttered
the
> phrase "too cheap to meter."
> ============================
> Bob Flood
> Dosimetry Group Leader
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> bflood@slac.stanford.edu
> 
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