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Nuclear nonsense :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Neil Steinberg

Nuclear nonsense
McCain’s vow to build 45 atomic plants has bold glow of deception

CHICAGO SUN TIMES October 19, 2008

BY NEIL STEINBERG Sun-Times Columnist

Opening shot

The most recent nuclear power plant to go online in the United States was the Watts Bar station in Tennessee, which started producing power in 1996, a scant 23 years after construction began. Thus John McCain’s debate claim that, as president, he would somehow push through the construction of 45, count ’em, 45 new nuclear plants without worrying about where they’d be placed or what we’d do with the radioactive waste drew quite a response,…………….. pal who works at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and I asked him what he thinks of McCain’s plan.

“No way,” he said. “He’s crazy. We’ll be lucky to build two nuclear plants in the next 10 years, and that’ll cost $18 billion.”

I’m all for boldness. But claiming you’ll solve our energy problems by spending money we don’t have on nuclear plants that won’t be built, well, that isn’t bold, it’s deceptive.

Nuclear nonsense :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Neil Steinberg

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