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Food for thought during the 2008 elections – President Ford's Statement on Nuclear Policy

January 30, 2008 By Rod Adams

A mailing list that I subscribe to sent out a link to a document that should be required reading – with a later test – for all presidential hopefuls. It is a comprehensive statement on nuclear policies issued by President Gerald Ford on October 28, 1976. For those without an immediate understanding of the importance of that date, it was just about a week before the fateful – for the nuclear power enterprise – 1976 election.

President Ford, whose historical legacy was cut short by doing the right thing for the country, lost that election to the “nuclear trained” engineer from Georgia. President Carter proceeded to implement every policy suggested by President Ford that limited the development of nuclear power and nuclear fuel recycling, but he ignored every policy and statement that emphasized the importance of balancing the limitations required against the enormous benefits that could be gained by continued development and encouraged construction.

You can find a scanned copy of the document at http://www.nci.org/new/pu-repro/ford76/index.htm

Since I think that all important documents deserve to be eventually placed on the web in a format that can be searched, I practiced my typing skills by transcribing the document for the Atomic Insights Guest column. Since the original is a U.S. Government document, I figured that the copyright issue was not a big deal. You can find the typed version at https://atomicinsights.com/Guests/PF_10-28-1976.html

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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