[ RadSafe ] Overcoming America's nuclear power phobia

[John Jacobus]

To me, the real test is what happens with a company
proposes to build a new nuclear power plant in the
U.S.  The hypothesis that radiophobia is the problem
to the development of new power plants is speculative.
 I think that this is an economic issue, which can be
fixed by giving tax incentives to the power companies.

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at wpi.edu> wrote:

> Friends,
>  
> This article presents a constructive view of the
> nature of the
> radiation-phobia perpetrated by regulators and their
> anti-nukes.
>  
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> =====================
>  
> This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of
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> 
> Tuesday, May 10, 2005
> 
> 
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> Overcoming America's nuclear power phobia
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Posted: May 10, 2005
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
> 
> 
> . . .

> To his credit, President Bush has been trying to put
> U.S. nuclear energy
> policy on a more rational footing, proposing
> regulatory changes and insurance
> proposals for companies that take on the economic
> risks of building new
> nuclear plants in a political atmosphere still ruled
> by anti-nuclear
> hysteria.   
> 
> In his recent energy speech, President Bush even
> held up the example of
> France as one, in this respect at least, our nation
> should emulate. When the
> oil price shocks of the 1970s hit, the French
> government decided that it
> could no longer afford to leave its economy
> vulnerable to vagaries of Middle
> East politics. While our nation continued to dig
> itself deeper into that
> particular hole, France built some 50 new nuclear
> power plants. Today, that
> France's nuclear reactors provide 80 percent of that
> country's energy needs. 
> 
> An analogous investment in nuclear power in the
> United States would
> essentially free us from the tyranny of having
> foreign dictators play havoc
> with the price of energy - and with our economy. As
> Franklin Roosevelt said
> in another context, the only thing we have to fear
> is fear itself. 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Josh Gilder is a Visiting Fellow at the Lexington
> Institute
> 
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Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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