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that two existing nuclear power plants in Virginia have saved $100 million, or $150 for each house hold, if coal had been used instead of nuclear energy to produce the electricity. There are no dangers of radioactivity escaping from a power plant, continued Reynolds, although he admitted there are some waste disposal problems. But Reynolds felt assured that the wastes can be stored in underground salt mines. There won’t be as much waste as there has been, he added, because the nuclear breeder will be working soon. There is danger when plutonium could be stolen and fashioned into a bomb. This worried Reynolds because it was not technological matter, but political and psychological.
Gregg was immediately antagonistic, “This is a debate,” he announced. Gregg felt that the risks involved in nuclear power were not worth taking. There was too much allowed for human stupidity or error, argued Gregg.
Bombs can be made from stolen plutonium, continued Gregg. Then he got off on a wild scenario where the Army was flying in shipments of raw plutonium to Dulles Airport, and one of the planes like those carrying the shipments—no one knows if it actually was—landed right before the plane that crashed into the mountain near Bluemont, and what if that had been the plane to crash, “Well I’d hate to say,” laughed Gregg, apparently making the point that plutonium is dangerous and should not be used.
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