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...that resistance stems from fear, and the overriding fear these days is of nuclear waste. Says I.C. Bupp, managing director of the Massachusetts-based Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a longtime student of nuclear energy: "There will be no nuclear renaissance until a waste-disposal program exists that passes some common-sense test of public credibility and acceptability...
Other experts argue that the U.S. will profit from both conservation and nuclear power. "Conservation has tremendous potential," says Cambridge Energy's Bupp. "We have every reason to applaud the effort. But it will take time and good management to get the full results." Meanwhile, he says, the nuclear power industry has "invested $1 trillion over the past 30 years making plants simpler, cheaper and safer. Nuclear power should continue to provide about 20% of U.S. electric generation over the next century because it does work...
...Bupp, the lead-off witness, termed nuclear power "the most important attempt to modernize society since the railroad," but he stressed that it depends on several unproven assumptions...
...assumptions are that nuclear power is cheaper and involves fewer national security problems than fossil fuels and that atomic power poses fewer environmental hazards than do fossil fuels, Bupp said...
Thomas R. Stauffer, lecturer on Economics who is scheduled to testify before PUCA next week, said yesterday that Bupp is not qualified to make statements about the state of the art in physics and engineering on nuclear power plants...