Tuesday, December 13, 2005  Is that a Phalanx in your Pocket
or...     But let me start from the beginning.  The sidebar
began, as Bailey notes, with the presentation of the results of
a report by Felix Christian Matthes and sponsored by the
Heinrich Böll Foundation. The Foundation is closely affiliated
with the Green Party in Germany which is stridently antinuclear.
Though admirably portrayed as a result of scientific study, his
conclusions were predictable; nuclear can't significantly affect
carbon reduction, and even if it did, it's too dangerous, and
besides, without "enormous" subsidies, nuclear power is
uneconomical and trending downward, so all the money spent on
nuclear should be spent on other renewables. In reality, Matthes
took bits of real data from a few reliable sources like the
International Energy Agency, threw in a lot of conjecture and
misrepresentation of the facts, made flawed assumptions about
"unknown externalities" and produced results to support his
organization's premise.  But as lack