Reply #5: We'll just chalk this up to bad reading comprehension and typical anti-nuke

[NNadir]

making stuff up.

I have openly travelled to NEI offices - and stated as much. I'm not on some kind of secret mission.

I also said what they gave me, a golf shirt and lunch and a nice trade show trinket.

It's not like I've been paid hundreds of thousands of dollar per year - or in fact, any cash - to hold my views, unlike Amory Lovins who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by dangerous fossil fuel companies, the one's anti-nukes couldn't care less about.

We are still left with the anti-nuke contention that the only reason that someone could possibly do anything is for money. The existence of such a contention helps obviate my contention that anti-nukes have a very low moral order.

For the record, Rod Adams is a friend of mine. I contacted him through his website, because after years and years and years and years of private study of nuclear energy in paper based libraries, he was one of the first writers on nuclear energy I encountered on the internet.

He is a very fine person. I have met him, and have been interviewed by him on his radio show.

I also have met David Bradish at the NEI, a fine very bright young man and Eric McErlain, another great guy. I shook hands with Scott Pederson.

So what?

The NEI is funded by power companies. To the extent they support nuclear energy, they're my kind of guys, to the extent they have dangerous coal and dangerous coal facilities, I oppose them.

Now if the nuclear industry were to offer me a job, I would take it if it paid more than my current job, because I would consider working in the nuclear industry an ethical undertaking. I would not take a job with any of Amory Lovins "friends," with the possible exception of Westinghouse, because I hate dangerous fossil fuels.

I am not "completely surrounded" with nuclear spokesman. God knows I'm not Amory Lovins and I don't surround myself with corporate types.

This might come as a surprise to the anti-nukes who clearly do not think, but what I think comes from my private knowledge and private research.

I think the people who met me during my one visit to the NEI were impressed by my knowledge, and certainly didn't try to tell me anything.

I note that you don't explain whether you've been to the dangerous fossil fuel funded RMI offices, the ones in the shopping center no where near a walkable community.

Most anti-nukes are not paid off, I think. The vast majority of them are simply uneducated and thoughtless, immoral, indifferent, lazy and more than a little stupid.