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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Skywatcher who wrote (3625)4/20/2002 4:16:16 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5185
 
"one such proposal was the development of a new nuclear reactor designed to produce electricity — a
gas-cooled reactor built on tennis-ball-size graphite spheres — that the report said "has inherent safety
features."

"The industry has an interest in this," the report said, "and other advanced reactor designs."

But only one company, the Exelon Corporation of Chicago, which provided hundreds of thousands of dollars
to Republican campaigns in recent years, has an interest in promoting the so-called pebble-bed reactor. "

Excerpt from:
A now for the next BIG E scandal!
A Company's Gain From
Energy Report's
Recommendation
nytimes.com
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
The New York Times
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Cheney and BUSH are stuck into the same old technologies, aren't they? They are unable to support
anything new. Of course, if it were "new", then it is unlikely the companies would have contributed
thousands of dollars to to Cheney and Bush or to the Republicans.