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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.213909.10492@michael.apple.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
- References: <1992Nov16.063255.4320@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <JMC.92Nov16001311@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <17034@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:39:09 GMT
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- In article <17034@umd5.umd.edu> bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams) writes:
- >In article <JMC.92Nov16001311@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> John McCarthy,
- >jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >>I suppose the ultimate upshot of the flap is that the Japanese will
- >>build their own reprocessing plant. Then when we finally give up
- >>Jimmy Carter's foolish idea that it would provide a "good example"
- >>to not salvage the plutonium from our own spent fuel rods, we can
- >>send our fuel rods to Japan to be reprocessed - with one more
- >>well-deserved hit in the balance of trade.
-
- Hmmm, I think you may be on to something ... but have the trade
- balance backward ... We don't use refined plutonium in our power
- reactors, so the plutonium would be of most value to the Japanese
- who could actually use it conveniently... This would put the US
- in the Pu exporting business, and *help* our balance of trade!
-
- Golly, we could become a source of 'minerals' to the Japanese ...
-
- >If the Japanese do establish such a plant, they will soon be the only
- >ones. They can have it.
-
- Are the Europeans abandoning reprocessing?
-
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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