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- From: miller@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Griff Miller X7114)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us?
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:38:28 GMT
- References: <1h3797INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> <b7PS02gG2ft901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Dec22.063847.17417@truffula.sj.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Dec22.063847.17417@truffula.sj.ca.us> cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
- >In article <b7PS02gG2ft901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jjh00@diag.amdahl.com
- > (Joel Hanes) writes:
-
- >>No one. The reactor accident at Three Mile Island cannot be shown
- >>to have harmed any person in any way whatsoever. Fact.
-
- >Clearly, Mr. Hanes is not a General Public Utilities ratepayer;
- >that group is still paying.
- >The financial damage to the community served by the reactor was
- >substantial: electric rates rose by over 40% as the operator passed
- >some of the costs of the failure to its consumers.
- >A reasonable person might conclude that community was harmed.
-
- A reasonable person would more likely conclude that utilities in
- general tend to pass such costs to consumers, not just nuclear
- power plants.
-
- Besides, who can say that all the increases were due to the TMI
- incident?
-
- >Nor, it seems, is Mr. Hanes an investor in nuclear power. (Excluding
- >emotional investment, of course!) That coverup (you do remember the
- >coverup, don't you, Joel?) and its failure dealt a crippling blow to
- >the dying nuclear fission business:
-
- So what's that got to do with the viability of nuclear power? The
- coverup was not caused by a faulty reactor, it was caused by people.
- You talk as if it were a direct result of nuclear technology.
-
- >A reasonable person might conclude the GPU bondholders were harmed.
- >Then again, we could say their loss was a well-deserved lesson.
-
- Talk about emotional investment. You're saying that people that
- had nothing to do with the coverup got their just desserts? Good
- grief.
- --
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