RE: Request for suggestion

["Kent, Michael D" <Michael.D.Kent@xcelenergy.com>]

> I have been in the nuclear business since 1965 and I have watched the rise
> 
> and fall of popularity of nuclear power.  I don't like to pedict doom and 
> gloom, but unless there is a national policy endorsing nuclear power and a
> 
> limit to utility liability combined with a strong profit motive I don't 
> predict a change in opinion.
> 
> 
	I entered Nuclear Power in 1985, a relatively short time compared to
a lot of people on this server.  When I was first going through training
some people were questioning the viability of the future of nuclear power.
A trainer at the sight posted an article from a newspaper.  In short the
article stated "When the average joe can no longer afford to heat his home,
cool his beer, and watch Sunday football, nuclear power will make a
comeback."

	I still believe this is true.  Eventually, barring some miraculous
discovery or breakthrough, when electric prices become so outrageous, the
public's wallet will shut their ear's to the anti nuke rhetoric and want
cheap reliable energy.  That is where nuclear power will come back in.

	Maybe I'm naive, but hey, it gets me through the day.

	Michael D. Kent
>  
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