From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 23:27:36 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> > (I'd suggest nuclear, but I don't think that could
> be done
> > cheaply enough. No question that it could be done
> for
> > enough money - civilian nuclear plants get their
> fuel
> > from somewhere - just on the amount of mone when
> this
> > is supposed to be cheap.)
>
> Ah but the question is whether the cost of a nuclear
> reactor
> is in the fuel or the shielding? [I actually
> suspect that
> ship/sub based nuclear reactors are probably much
> cheaper than
> the civilian power plant equivalents due to the lack
> of a
> very large "containment" facility.]
It's the politics, and the monetary cost (both in
wages
and other expenses) in dealing with such.
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