As Flavin and other quacks are burying nuclear power, there is good reason to laugh out loud at the funeral. There is plenty to cheer those who know that there simply is no alternative to the eventual triumph of nuclear power.
The power delivered from nuclear plants as a fraction of the total delivered power in 1986 (rounded to the nearest percentage point):
France 70%; Belgium 67%; Sweden 50%; Taiwan 44%; S. Korea 40%; Switzerland 39%; Finland 38%; Spain 31%; Bulgaria 30%; W. Germany 29%; Japan 29%; Hungary 27%; Britain 19%; USA 17% (16.6%); Czechoslovakia 15%; Canada 14%; E. Ger-many 12%; USSR 10%.
Nuclear capacity (to the nearest gigawatt): USA 92; France 45; USSR 32; Japan 25; W. Germany 17; Canada 11; Sweden 10; Bri-tain 7; Spain 6; Belgium 6; all others less than 5.
The map shows the percentage of electricity delivered from nuclear plants in the US in 1986.
GRAPHIC: US map with percent nuclear-generated electricity in all states with nuclear plants
Cost of a nuclear kWh (in 1984 cents and applicable to plants beginning operation in 1995 [Economist, 1/31/87]): France 2.1, Italy 2.4, W. Germany 2.6, Japan 3.2, Canada 3.3, Britain 3.7, US 4.4.
Why does the US have the world's highest cost? To a con-siderable extent, this is a reflection of the US justice system
¾the only one in the Western world that allows its courts to be abused for endless sabotage of industrial projects under totally meritless claims of safety concerns (and, incidentally, the only one that allows its courts to be abused for political vengeance¾as shown by the cases of G. Liddy, M. Stans, Rep. Hansen, Labor Secr. Donovan, Rev. Moon and many other victims of outrageous double standards).|
Vol. 14, No. 11
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 14, No. 11 Date: November 30, 2004 10:00 AM (For actual publication date see newsletter.) Title: Doctored data
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