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...reactor it is helping build in South Africa that, theoretically at least, wouldn't ever need to be shut down for refueling and is practically meltdown-proof. Of course, the company would still have to find a place in the U.S. to put it. Many homeowners would sooner burn coal in their own fireplace than live next to a reactor. So rather than try to find converts, the industry hopes to construct new facilities on existing sites, in communities that already depend on plants for jobs...
...particular - "conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy" - led to a wave of bad press and gave the administration's critics fresh ammunition to dismiss the plan as a sop to the oil, gas and coal industries. That characterization may have been an over-reaction, say critics, but why bait the enemy? Cheney's speech, says a senior administration official, "took a punch when it didn't need...
...counter the impression that increased supply of oil, coal and nuclear power might lead to environmental problems, the Bush White House wants voters to know that MODERN techniques have taken care of any fussy cleanliness issues and that through MODERN technologies most of the environmental downsides can be ameliorated...
...From tried-and-true sources, both politically and industrially. Big Coal won Bush-Cheney West Virginia and the November election; Big Oil and Big Energy (particularly Enron, who under Bush buddy Lay invested $1.3 million in Bush's presidential run and $461,000 in his gubernatorial efforts) got him that far. Cheney has looked around at the U.S. energy scene and decided that America's energy workhorses of the past two decades - fossil fuels, and if you want cleaner air, nuclear plants - have been recently over-burdened with regulation, and need to be unleashed...
...Cleaner than coal...