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To: ptanner who wrote (147683)	6/17/2002 1:54:26 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580049

I actually oppose the stand - seems too much a NIMBY response. Or perhaps this is part of a concerted program to shut down the nuclear plant? I think a more pressing issue might be some/all of the industrial pig farms. Or was that NC? EDIT: Seems NC is the one with the hog challenge. hogwatch.org; PT, that article does not make clear the fears of the governor but I can see a couple of possibilities. First, I am a little uncomfortable having plutonium traveling over roads where it can be intercepted by terrorists. Granted it will be guarded but I would think it would be much easier to guard it on a plane than in a truck convoy. The other part of this is why is something like this being shipped over two thirds of the country? Isn't there a nuclear plant closer to CO than SC that could use the stuff? Why is such a valuable and dangerous cargo being shipped such a long distance at probably great expense? And lastly, I don't know if we should be generating power from nuclear power plants in the future. Most studies indicate that it would be very difficult to stop a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant. We might want to start thinking of making a slow transistion from this source of power. ted