Re: Norm's New Year Resolution may come true: DB may close

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

At 12:56 PM 01/03/2003 -0500, Norman Cohen wrote in part:

>Just so you know, I am not in favor of shutting down all nukes at the same 

>time.

>Obviously that would be impossible to do.

>I am in favor of phasing them out over a period of perhaps 20 years, as we 

>phase in alternatives. I am in favor of shutting down the most dangerous 

>and most vulnerable first.

>

>bleedingly heartily yours, ;-)



Norm, I think that both you and I are interested in electrical energy at 

the lowest cost, both environmental and financial. I think when I came to 

the discussion of the relative risks of different forms of energy 

generation, few were willing to step up to the plate and quantify these. 

Perhaps because you cannot, but someone produced a table of the number of 

deaths associated with power production in various guises and Nuclear won out!



I'm curious, what are your suggestions for the best option to replace the 

nuclear power plants you suggest decommissioning? I'm serious, I'm not 

trying to bait you.



Perhaps RadSafe is the wrong list to discuss this on, but since you made 

the assertion here, I thought we should at least explore this.



One of the things I've noticed is that existing energy infrastructures and 

related companies seem to use lawyers to protect the status quo, so that is 

one challenge as evidenced by the California laws requiring a certain 

percentage of zero emission vehicles and GM's (and perhaps others') attempt 

to overturn that rather than spending the money on R&D.



Happy New Year!



Richard



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