ML19339C863
| ML19339C863 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/04/1981 |
| From: | Elliott H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8102120149 | |
| Download: ML19339C863 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Ahearne:
I support the use and development of nuclear power; I also realize that that is all I need to say, but I can't resist adding my reasons in hopes they will convince someone else.
If fission power is eliminated or outlawed now it will be next to impossible for fusion power to be put to use when it is finally developed. At this point my arguments begin to sound rather rcmantic and fanciful, but the comonplace arguments have had plenty of exposure in the media and haven't changed anyone's mind.
Fusion power is essentially limitless since hydrogen is the most comen element in the universe.
Fusion could provide mankind with a chance to give every person, regardless of nationality, a decent standard of living.
All other solutions to our energy problems have limitations:
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Coal reserves supposedly will last 400 years.
Four hundred years is not very long for mankind's descendents. (I've also noticed that those projections keep getting shorter.)
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All sources of energy except solar power and its wind and water variations will be expended eventually.
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All of this means that no one is going to put up with a constant "x" jillion megawatts of power divided evenly among a world population of "y'
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a Page Two Finally (and probably most important in terms of mankinds real future),
Solar powered only fusion power will allow mankind to escape this planet.
spacecraft don't work much beyond the orbit of I-fars.
Fusion power will be developed - if not by us then by some other nation.
We may end up importing electric power as we new import oil, suffering all the same consequences.
There's no doubt that fusion is dangerous, but so is fire and its obvious now what happened to the tribes of primitive heminids that decided to play it safe and not mest with fire.
I hope my descendents survive far beyond the next 400 years Sincerely,
@f Harry een Elliott cc: Malcolm Wallop Senator-Wyoming Alan Simpson Senator-Wyoming Dick Cheney Representative - Wyoming
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