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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Japanese breeder plans
- Message-ID: <58041@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:48:36 GMT
- References: <JMC.92Dec28095152@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Dec28095152@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- >1. Contrary to the implications of the _New York Times_ "Japan's
- >Nuclear Fiasco" article, the Japanese are going ahead with the
- >breeder program. Good for them. We'll eventually be buying
- >nuclear technology from them.
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- But, I thought you were against government interference in the marketplace,
- Nuclear power and AI, two technologies that are somehow immune to
- Prf. McCarthy's virulent dislike of government planning.
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- >the rate of building reactors will spurt. Then the price of
- >uranium will go up, and those countries that don't have their
- >own breeder reactor programs will end up buying them from Japan
- >and France.
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- Japan can't even get its own utilities to buy into the technology without
- strong-arm tactics. The French breeder program is an expensive shambles.
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