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To: dumbmoney who wrote (135525)	6/4/2004 12:07:02 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Nobody is questioning whether nuclear is a reasonable way to generate power. It is. But it does not seem to have a cost advantage, at this moment in time, in the U.S. The problem is that it takes a long time to go though the regulatory steps to build a nuclear plant, then an equally long time to actually build it. By the time a nuclear plant goes online, say a decade from taking the first step, we will be on the downslope of the oil production curve. By then, the folks who had the foresight to build such a plant will be hailed as visionaries. Today, however, they are Satanic Corporate Greedheads. And red-eyed assassin neocons, to boot. The economics will defintely make nucler power feasible in the future but we cannot afford to wait until they actually do before we start building them. The political difficulties, though, should be obvious.