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To: Joe NYC who wrote (347094)	8/16/2007 4:26:48 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575544

"So as long as nuclear industry is paralyzed by the "environmentalists" things are not going to be getting any better for the environment regarding greenhouse gasses." Depending on what you mean, that is a red herring. It isn't the environmental regulations that keep new plants from being built. Like with refineries, it is more economical to update the existing ones to produce more than to build new ones in an uncertain market. Because, while there are spot demand problems, overall the increase in electrical demand has been at a lower rate than population growth. Now, the permitting process can be streamlined. And, it has. The Bush administration allowed for almost all of the requirements to be waved several years back. Yet no new plants have been proposed to take advantage of it. Frankly, what is needed is a commitment to either displace coal and natural gas for power or an increase use of electric cars. Alternatively, a push for the very high temperature reactor that produces both electricity and hydrogen would also spark new construction, although storage of hydrogen for fuel cell use is still problematic.