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E3: Energy, Engineering, and Ethics
E3: Energy, Engineering, and Ethics
Pages 67-76
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And for reasons of economy, environment, securi ty, and stature as a world power alike, the United States must maintain its leadership in the science and technology of energy supply and use. Economically, expenditures on energy account for 7 to 8 percent of gross economic product in the United States and worldwide and a similar fraction of the value of U.S.
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Although the combustion of natural gas, a fossil fuel, produces greenhouse gas, this objection is seldom raised because gas contributes only about half as much greenhouse gas as coal per unit of energy produced. Opposition to oil is focused on U.S.
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Things changed again under Clinton, who was a strong supporter of renewables, at least in words, but who eventually zeroed research on nuclear power. The Bush administration has taken nuclear power out of the woodshed but has also supported renewables, perhaps in response to pressure by Congress.
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But some utilities are wary of building natural gas plants, because generation costs would then be at the mercy of price rises in a single source. Human problems were integrally involved in the Three Mile Island accident, the Chernobyl accident, the Japanese Toka Mura accident, the large hole in the reactor lid at the Davis-Besse plant, and the enforced closing of the 17-reactor fleet of the Japanese utility, TEPCO.
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Today's regulations will lift a major cloud of uncertainty, boosting our efforts to provide affordable, reliable electric service and clean air." However, S William Becker, executive director of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials, said, "This rule eviscerates the NSPR [New Source Performance Review]
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. Regarding Indian Point, a nuclear power station on the Hudson River north of New York City, "Opponents of Indian Point, which include some state and local lawmakers and activist organizations, want the plant closed down for safety reasons." FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
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The debate on nuclear energy and other energy issues would be enhanced if knowledgeable professionals would clarify the issues and separate fact from opinion. People in the technical community who understand these technologies have a duty to address them objectively.
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Perhaps the most publicized example in recent years in the United States [was] the silence of researchers employed by the tobacco industry, as the indus try publicly claimed that the evidence was inconclusive linking smoking to lung cancer (Ahearne, 1999, p.
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1995. Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards.
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