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PamW

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3. I'd like to see some documentation of these "lies"
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:58 AM
Mar 2012

I'd like to see some documentation of these "lies".

I've always found that it is the people accusing the nuclear industry that are at fault.

They don't understand something, either because they didn't study it in school, or they just flat out don't have the
mental horsepower; so they proclaim it "untrue" and a "lie".

When I ask this question, I always get the "too cheap to meter" lie. However, that was NOT said by anyone in the
nuclear industry. It was said by a Government official, then AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, and he wasn't talking about
the nuclear power plants we have now; he was talking about nuclear fusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss

In 1954, Strauss predicted that atomic power would make electricity "too cheap to meter." He was referring to
Project Sherwood, a secret program to develop power from hydrogen fusion, not uranium fission reactors as is
commonly believed.


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