Fwd: Too cheap . . .

[GlennACarlson@aol.com]

And again.  Sorry.

In a message dated 4/27/2000 10:49:32 PM Central Daylight Time, GlennACarlson 
writes:

> Subj: Re: Too cheap . . .
>  Date:    4/27/2000 10:49:32 PM Central Daylight Time
>  From:    GlennACarlson
>  To:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>  CC:  pottert@erols.com
>  
>  From The Washington Post, May 7, 1979  --  
>  
>  "It has been some time now since we've heard the 'electricity too cheap to 
> meter' refrain.  As early as 1975, Donald Cook, chairman of the board of 
> American Electric Power, the largest U.S. utility, was saying that 'an 
> erroneous conception of the economics of nuclear power' had sent U.S. 
> utilities 'down the wrong road."  
>  
>  From The Washington Post, July 9, 1980 --
>  
>  "While defending Vepco's [Virginia Electric and Power Co.] heavy reliance 
on 
> nuclear power, [Vepco Chairman T. Justin Moore Jr.] conceded the energy 
> source had fallen short of early expectations.  'In all candor, I think 
that 
> nuclear power was oversold a little bit to everybody,' said Moore, who in 
the 
> past has been one of the courntry's most ardent nuclear advocates.
>  
>  "In a luncheon meeting with reporters and editors at The Washington Post, 
> Moore cited claims by early enthusiasts in the 1950s that nuclear-generated 
> electricity would prove 'too cheap to meter' as one example.
>  
>  "'It (nuclear power) was oversold by the military to industry,' said 
Moore.  
> 'The reactor makers like Westinghouse and General Electric oversold it to 
us 
> to a certain extent . . . And utility executives myself included, oversold 
it 
> to the public. . .'"
>  
>  
>  In a message dated 4/27/2000 8:09:05 AM Central Daylight Time, writes:
>  > 
>  >  I think this is a cheap shot, and strongly doubt that you can provide
>  >  evidence that the phrase, or even the idea behind it, was ever promoted
>  >  in any significant way by the nuclear industry as a whole, or even
>  >  substantial parts of it.
>  [snip]
>  >  
>  >  >Whether an industry insider said it first or not, the nuclear industry 
>  >  >adopted it as gospel.
>  >  >
>  >  >Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
>  >  >glennacarlson@aol.com
>  >  
>  >  
>