   Its the same tired tactics and hot air from radical
environmental groups         Comments     Threshold   RE: Don't
lump us all together By atomicrod on 6/6/2009 5:01:22 AM ,
Rating: 5 I am also an environmentalist who is strongly
supportive of nuclear power. Whenever I read about efforts to
shut down an operating reactor or to slow or stop the
construction of a new one, I follow the advice of the guy in the
movie "Follow the Money".  The main financial beneficiaries of
any effort to reduce the production of electricity from atomic
fission are the people who sell coal, oil and natural gas to the
plants that produce electricity through fossil fuel combustion.
Less fission = more sales for the fossil fuel industry. The
amount is non-trivial; shutting down a single 650 MWe nuclear
plant increases fossil fuel sales (probably natural gas) by more
than $1 million PER DAY in the local area where the plant is
shut down.  Perhaps that is why many of the established
mainstream environmental groups are so well suppo