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1. | In Japan, where nuclear power supplies 27 percent of the country's electricity, new nuclear plants are being deployed at the fastest rate in the world. -- U.S. Department of Energy; "Energy Security: A Report to the President of the United States" |
In Sweden, where nuclear power supplies 42 percent of the country's electricity, voters passed a referendum to close all of the country's nuclear plants. -- Thomas B. Johnson; Nuclear Waste From Nuclear Power Plants Berkeley; University of California Press, 1983 |
2. | Throughout the world, nuclear power is an inexpensive generating option. -- Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. in their 1986 factsheet, "Plant Cancellations and the Economics of Nuclear Power." |
Between 1971 and 1985 the cost of building new nuclear plants in the U.S. rose sixfold. -- New England Journal of Public Policy; "The (Mal)practice of Nuclear Power Economics," Charles Komanoff, 1985 |
3. | The potential hazards of nuclear reactors have been reduced to an extremely low level of actual risk. -- Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., 1988 |
A nuclear power plant accident could cause 50,000 early fatalities and $314 billion in property damages. -- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; "Nuclear Safety: Risks and Regulations," William C. Wood, 1983 |
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The small volume of high-level waste makes it highly controllable, compared to other industrial wastes. -- U.S. Committee for Energy Awareness; "Nuclear Energy: Moving Ahead," 1988 |
No technology for the safe, permanent containment of radioactive wastes has been developed and tested. -- Scott Fenn, The Nuclear Power Debate, (New York: Prager Publishers, 1981), p. 176 |
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In the U.S., no commercial nuclear power plant worker has ever exhibited clinical evidence of serious injury from radiation. -- Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., "Nuclear Reactor Safety," April 1983 |
Nuclear power's occupational hazards are manifested more in long-term cancer than in immediate lethality. -- Nader and Abbotts, op. cit. p. 165 |
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