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∂CSL Mr. Kenneth Schnitzer↓47 Crestwood Drive↓West Orange, NJ 07052∞

Dear Mr. Schnitzer:

	Let me deal with your concerns one at a time.

	1. The question of whether burying nuclear waste will leave
future generations with difficult problems is one of those discussed
at length in the American Physical Society study to which I referred.
It was published as a special issue of %2Reviews of Modern Physics%1,
but I don't have the issue at hand.  Any library could find it.

	There is always some risk, but our organization is composed
of people who think that the risks in nuclear and other sources of
energy are far less than the risk of not acting while our oil supplies
diminish and cut-throat competition for Middle East oil grows.

	2. Ours is an advocacy organization, not a research organization,
and we were dependent on Public Service Gas and Electric to get our
opinions into ads.  Considerable research money is being spent by government
and industry on photo-voltaic cells.  Even if the current research
goals are met, I think that electricity from them will be extremely
capital intensive and more expensive than nuclear electricity.  In
any case they won't be available for many years.
If they are expensive and they are built, then presumably someone
will make even more money out of them than out of using nuclear
energy.  Actually, because of inflation accounting, both the manufacturers
of power plants (nuclear and conventional) and the utilities are
either losing money outright or not making enough to replace equipment
as it wears out.

	3. None of us make any money out of our activity.  I am
a university professor, and my activity in Scientists and Engineers
for Secure Energy is in my spare time.  I am motivated by our country's
dependence on imported oil and by fear of what I see as a superstitious
fear of what I see as a safe and cost-effective technology.

.sgn