Carter may have been in Rickover's nuclear submarine force, and he may have run in to help clean-up the Canadian NRU reactor accident, but that doesn't make him a "nuclear expert".
Witness his retort during the debate with Gerald Ford in which Carter said nuclear power plants should be held under "heavy vacuum".
GADS what a DOLT!!! The best vacuum you can get is a negative one atmosphere. A nuclear power plant containment building can actually contain several atmospheres of positive pressure. So that "heavy vacuum" gets lost in the noise.
If there are only two side; then the scientists are on the industry's side, and it's NOT about money; it's about scientific truth which the environmentalists are found lacking in the extreme.
That people vs profits is just so much BS!! You don't profit by running your nuclear power plant in an unsafe manner any more than the airline industry profits by running their airliners unsafely.
Some nuclear power plants are owned by coal plant owners. However, the largest stock of nuclear power plants are owned by companies such as Exelon which is just basically in the nuclear power plant business.
If your final line is my choice; then I most certainly will NOT trust dolts like Carter who doesn't understand the simplest physics with regard to pressure and the atmosphere and how to keep a reactor bottled up and safe.
I certainly do NOT throw my lot in with people who are extremely poor scholars and didn't do their homework and just keep parroting the same old anti-nuclear pablum that the anti-nukes have been peddling to a gullible public for decades.
Do you ever wonder why 99.9% of the scientists, you know really bright, intelligent, independent thinking people; are in favor of nuclear power?
PamW
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