Re: Record US gas prices breathe life into nuclear power

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Sandy Perle wrote:

> Record US gas prices breathe life into nuclear power
> 
> NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) -
> 
> "I'm skeptical about the nuclear option. If gas prices stay high, 
> utilities are going to look for something else, but it probably will 
> be coal first. There's a lot of uncertainty about the public reaction 
> to nuclear," said Joe Sannicandro, a director at Massachusetts-based 
> consultants Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). 

	--For those of you who don't believe that coal burning air
pollution is killing thousands of Americans per year, how do you argue in
this upcoming debate between coal and nuclear? The public believes that
nuclear kills people --ICRP and NCRP  have conceded that -- and coal does
not kill people; why shouldn't they choose coal over nuclear?

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