Many have been deliberately misled by an Administration that has failed to enact appropriate energy policy, gagged scientists, re-wrote reports and for 8 years, has denied Global Warming, even as changes were evidenced.
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The airways and media are filled with myths of CLEAN COAL and NUCLEAR POWER AS SAVIOR.
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In the nuclear power debate, folks seem to ignore, omit or forget about the disaster that was Shoreham.
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Newsday had this to say (emphasis mine -- $6 BILLION):
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The chain reaction set off by the Shoreham fight rippled far beyond the confines of the plant itself, and even beyond the nuclear industry whose decline it came to symbolize. By the time Shoreham was fully decommissioned on Oct. 12, 1994, its $6 billion price tag -- about 85 times higher than the original estimate -- had nearly wrecked the regional economy by saddling Long Island with some of the highest electric rates in the nation.
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Rep. Roscoe Bartlett commented that he supports the annual investment of $250 million to develop a breeder reactor to solve the disposal dilemma of the mountain of nuclear waste we've created.
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How far would alternatives be if $250 million had been invested annually in fuel cells, photovoltaics and tidal/wave action power generation?
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How far would alternatives be if they were as heavily subsidized as nuclear energy?
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