]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] WHAT MOTIVATES THE ANTINUKES? [[[[[[[[[[[[[ "Let's face it, we don't want safe plants -- we want the ones being planned to be blocked and the ones operating shut down." Robert Hager Karen Silkwood's Defense Lawyer" "Thanks to intervenors, nuclear is safer, also much more expen- sive!" Bill Jordan, People Against Nuclear Energy "Electricity demand forecasting can be used as an effective roadblock to nuclear power." Ruth Kaplan Union of Concerned Scientists [The three quotations above are from STATUS UPDATE, vol.5, no.2, 2 April 1983, Scientists & Engrs for Secure Energy, New York] "[The antinukes] would succeed in stopping nuclear power through harassment tactics that would delay nuclear plants, escalate their costs and make them uneconomical to build." Barry Commoner, Wall Street Journal, 2 May 1983 "The [ideal] energy will be produced and disseminated through small-scale technology... We simply would have got rid of most of the extra high voltage wires strung around the country; closed up the coal mines, mined oil and gas fields, taken down oil refineries and much of the petro-chemical establishment.'' Institute for Policy Studies proposal for an Encyclopedia for Social Reconstruction (see R.J. Isaacs, "Games Antinukes Play," Amer. Spect., Nov. 1985 -- a fundamental article for pro-nuclear activists). * * *
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