Re: loosing, Tooth Fairy Project

["edith gbur" <egbur@adelphia.net>]

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From: "Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: loosing, Tooth Fairy Project


>
>
> > > How do you explain this world-wide  decline
> > > in nuclear power production?
>
> I couldn't locate the original email in which someone posted the statement
> above, but I wanted to point out that this is not correct.  There has not
> been a world-wide decline in nuclear power production.  Matter of fact,
the
> nuclear industry is having record setting years in the late 90s.    And in
> the first quarter of the year 2000, energy production by nuclear power in
> the US is up 7.4%.  In 1999, U.S. nuclear plants generated a record 728
> billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 1998, they produced 673.7
billion
> kWh.
>
> In the US, the average electricity production cost in 1998 for coal was
> 2.07 cents per kilowatt-hour, for nuclear 2.13 cents, for oil 3.24 cents,
> and for gas 3.30 cents (calculated in 1999 dollars). Six of the nine
> largest investor-owned utilities by revenue were nuclear utilities in
1998.
> The top investor-owned utility by profit was a nuclear utility, and six of
> the next nine profit leaders were nuclear utilities.  Eight of the top ten
> "market value-added" energy companies between 1995 and 1998 operate
nuclear
> plants, a measure of shareholder wealth creation.
>
> Nuclear power plants provided some 17 percent of the world's energy
> production in 1999. In total, 17 countries relied on nuclear energy to
> supply at least one-quarter of their total electricity.
>
> Setting records for energy production, hardly supports a "world-wide"
decline.
>
> Mike
>
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