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To: TKDietz
Most of our electricity is generated with coal or natural gas.

If nuclear energy were more readily available, some companies might consider switching from coal because of the emissions and the effect on the environment. It's also possible that the cost of natural gas could go up, also being an influence on switching to nuke generated electricity.

Another effect of having nuke plants is the availability of electricity at a reasonable cost to power hybrid or electric cars, and that would affect how much oil needs to be imported to refine into gasoline.

55 posted on 09/13/2006 11:57:42 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
It is true that nuclear plants alleviate the need for coal and natural gas fired power plants and that would reduce pollution. I'm no environmentalist but there is no sense in unnecessarily polluting our environment when there is a simple fix. As for electricity being available at a reasonable cost from nuclear power plants, I wonder if it is true that it ends up being any cheaper to consumers from those plants as opposed to other types of power plants? Nuclear plants are incredibly expensive to build and they have a lot of ongoing costs. Without considering up front costs, regulatory costs and the costs in keeping the process safe it may be considerably cheaper to produce energy with nuclear power, but is it so much cheaper when you consider all the costs involved? And how much money are taxpayers out because of nuclear power? The government has always been heavily involved in the process from the day the applications were filed to build each plant. I don't know how all this works but my guess would be that significant tax dollars go to regulating and policing the nuclear power industry.
64 posted on 09/14/2006 9:08:29 AM PDT by TKDietz (")
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