[ RadSafe ] Overcoming America's nuclear power phobia

[Maury Siskel]

Such political powers most emphatically are neither imaginary nor 
hypothetical. The Rancho Seco episode mentioned by Barbara H. was all 
the more remarkable in that throughout the grayouts/rolling blackouts of 
the great Gray Davis power shortages in California, Rancho Seco actually 
was being dismantled!!!!!!

In addition and more generally, the politics increasingly are manifest 
in the courts -- not in the arenas of direct public opinion. NPP 
construction typically has been hamstrung  via court suits denying the 
traditional financing arrangements applied to conventional power plants 
throughout history.  All participants make use of whatever they can 
dream up to exercise their politics in courts.

The modern legislature has become the judiciary and executive branches. 
The state and national legislative branches have been reduced to near 
sideshows -- which do, however, pay their performers very well!

Land of the free! Home of the Brave!
Cheers,
Maury&Dog    (Maury Siskel  maurysis at ev1.net)
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BLHamrick at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 5/11/2005 8:50:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
>crispy_bird at yahoo.com writes:
>
>Do you  think that a utility would not build any plant because of anti-nuclear  protest? 
>
>My recollection could be wrong, but I believe this is precisely why the  
>Rancho Seco plant near Sacramento was never fully operational. I believe it was fueled and went through low-power testing, but the anti-nuclear contingency in California prevented its full operation.
> 
>I would not underestimate the political power of those opposed to nuclear  
>power generation, and by extension all things radioactive.
> 
>Barbara
>  
>