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To: Chas. who wrote (37872)	8/3/2008 6:42:33 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217802

There's an experimental nuclear facility in Idaho, government funded. They helped write the safety standards... the hard way. Lots of experimental work can be done there. I would just as soon it was not in my back yard, however. Almost everybody's nuclear R & D is government funded, as is about half of biotech, about 1/3 or more of aircraft research, lots of space explorations, and a bunch of other fields. The folks at Darpa do a pretty good job. So does NIH, national institute of health. I think the US is pretty competitive when it chooses to be. I also don't think China being in the nuclear reactor business should be seen as a bad thing for the US, anymore than France being in the business. Russia would be a very different matter for many reasons. Maybe because I see the nuclear reactor business as being less strategic than the oil business, for example. Or because I see reactors as a way to get the world free of OPEC, and cut down Russia's flow of cash.

To: Chas. who wrote (37872)	8/3/2008 10:26:12 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217802

"we, Free Western countries." Are you sure this is 2008? or are you living in 1964?