Re: costs

[GlennACarlson@aol.com]

Whether an industry insider said it first or not, the nuclear industry 
adopted it as gospel.

Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
glennacarlson@aol.com

> Subj:  Re: costs
>  Date:    4/26/2000 1:39:52 PM Central Daylight Time
>  From:    jmuckerheide@delphi.com (Jim Muckerheide)
>  
>  Notwithstanding Heinlein (one of the great writers :-), as far as nuclear
>  energy is concerned, let's get it right: 
>  
>  Lewis Strauss, AEC Chairman, 1954 (lawyer)
[snip]
>  
>  Regards, Jim
>  muckerheide@mediaone.net
>  ========================
>  
>  "Neil, David M" wrote:
>  > 
>  > 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:  
[snip]
>  >  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! 
[snip]
>  > > Bob Flood
>  > > Dosimetry Group Leader
>  > > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>  > > bflood@slac.stanford.edu
>  > >
>  
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