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Energy Alternatives CDAE-06 February 2, 2004 Gary Flomenhoft http://www.uvm.edu/~gflomenh/CDAE06/
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Nine circles
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"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy...electrical energy too cheap to meter." Lewis Strauss, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission — 1954
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Nuclear song? Joni Crosby Nat
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film
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END PART ONE
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E=MC 2
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URANIUM
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China Energy use 1997
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Japan Energy 1995
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Nuclear Future?
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Direct subsidies: Nuclear R&D
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Indirect Subsidies: PRICE- ANDERSON ACT $200 million insurance for each plant >$200 million: 103 nuclear reactor operators in America must pay up to $88 million per reactor = $9.3 billion total per accident 1982 Sandia National Lab study estimated damages up to $560 billion in 2000 dollars. Chernobyl cost the nations of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus $358 billion. Does not include costs to other nations from fallout. $9.3 billion < 2% of the $560 billion in potential costs
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