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the figures that Gregg kept throwing out. First, the breeder cost is $1.7 billion, not $10 billion, as asserted by Gregg. And then $10 billion is only half that which is spent on foreign oil in a year, continued Reynolds. Also, no one has ever received cancer from a radiation leak from a nuclear plant, as asserted by Gregg, said Reynolds. And on top of that, a bomb can only be made from plutonium before it is refabricated, and the solution to that is to build the refabrication plants next to the power plants, he added. Also, it takes more than two critical masses of plutonium to come together to make a bomb, argued Reynolds. “You’ll kill yourself from radiation if you do, but not make a bomb.’’ Reynolds asserted that would probably be easier to steal an already made bomb, than make one from scratch.
All through Reynolds’s rebuttal, Gregg would shake his head and grin at the audience for support. Reynolds added that plutonium is dangerous only if it is inhaled, adding that it is hard to break it up into particles small enough to breath. Reynolds agreed that plutonium should not be shipped by air, and praised the critics of nuclear power for stopping air shipments.
SOMEONE in the audience wanted to know if Reynolds saw any danger that Vepco’s North Anna
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