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To: Sailing2 who wrote (136486)	7/2/2010 4:01:03 PM
From: Dennis Roth	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206184

>> I'm old enough to remember when nuclear energy (fission) was promised to be so cheap they would neet to meter it. << The phrase was coined by Lewis Strauss, then Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, in a speech to the National Association of Science Writers in 1954. thisdayinquotes.com Anti-nuclear activists have ridiculed and used it as an example of absurd claims made by nuclear fission power advocates for decades. However, Strauss was actually referring to hydrogen fusion power and his pet crash fusion power program, Project Sherwood. en.wikipedia.org I don't think any commercial fission power project ever promised power "too cheap to meter." The opponents just claim they did. I bring this up because the spread of this widely accepted but erroneous idea irks me. I learned long ago to, "Never attempt, to explain the facts to anti-nuclear activists, or teach a pig to sing." Appreciate your posts, too. Are you still following ATPG? Will it survive the moratorium and liability rules or will they have to sell themselves to a major, in your opinion?