To: maceng2 who wrote (63791 ) 5/13/2005 1:49:11 AM From: marcos Read Replies (4) | Respond to It must be embarrassing to the whole nuclear industry too ... bad publicity for them, these things are never forgotten ... nuke power would be such a great idea, if it worked ... in Ontario they've had huge problems with nuke plants, more cost overruns than accidents really, but the dollar figures involved were truly scarey .... it's a good thing our NDP [highly socialist] guvmint here in BC a few years ago didn't launch off toward nuke power, what they did do, was spend half a billion loonies building two 'fast' ferries, that weren't all that big, couldn't be run fast because they created too much wake and were a hazard to other craft, had all kinds of other problems and a fantastic per-hour operating cost, so the next government sold them for about eight cents on the dollar ... had that been a nuke plant, we'd be more famous for it, plus we couldn't have floated it off to some other poor suckers
