Ontario's power glut means possible nuclear plant shutdowns

[PamW]

5. FUZZY MATH!!!

"nuclear subsidies accounted for more than one percent of the federal budget over the first 15 years ..."
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I always have to really LAUGH when kristopher brings this up because it shows you the "fuzzy math" that the anti-nukes use.

The 1% of the Federal budget is the military's nuclear weapons budget.

I really find it funny how the anti-nukes have to resort to a completely unjustified LIE of claiming that the nuclear weapons
budget is somehow a subsidy for commercial nuclear power plants.

Every bit of special nuclear material in the USA's nuclear weapon came from special Government-owned reactors at
Hanford, Washington and Savannah River, SC and NONE of it came from commercial power plants.

Only in the last few years has a SINGLE Government-owned nuclear power plant, Watts-Bar, which is owned by
the Government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority been used to provide Tritium for nuclear weapons.

That was because President Clinton decided it would be cheaper to use a Government-owned power reactor to make Tritium
than build a new reactor just for the production of Tritium. The previous Tritium production reactors at Savannah River were
shut down, the last in 1988. For years, the weapons program made do with what they had on hand. However, Tritium is
radioactive with a 12-year half-life; so eventually there had to be a new source of Tritium; either a new reactor just for producing Tritium, or make us of a power reactor. ONLY Watt-Bar has been modified for the production of Tritium.

As for the privately-owned nuclear power reactors; NONE of them are used to provide materials for the nuclear weapons program.

PamW