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To: Grainne who wrote (21444)	5/9/1998 8:27:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>and projects of this type do not always lend themselves to the arguments of libertarians and the conservative right that less government is better? There has always been a place for govamint in supplying social goods like national defense and police and in regulating dangerous products and nachural monopolies. Govamint had to play big role in nuclear energy and it both over and underplayed it here in the US. As I recall, one of the major reasons for the success of the French program has been its relative simplicity - they took ONE good US design and replicated it. Here, every plant was essentially a custom job, which made everything far more costly and troublesome for both the regulated and the regulators. The French also didn't have a Jimmy Carter mucking things up for them. All in all, I think that the case can be made on both sides, that smart govamint regulation would have been a boon (France) while poor regulation (US) contributed a large measure to the present failure of the US nuclear powwa industry.