timately be borne by ratepayers and taxpayers. Across the board, costs for nuclear power have gone up at astronomical rates. Five planned reactors in the state of Washington, for example, have gone from an estimated cost of $4 billion in 1970 to $17 billion in 1980. These figures do not include the total costs of the plants, either. A study by Battelle Laboratories, one of the major nuclear contractors for the U.S. government, found that the hidden costs which the government pays for — such as research and development and fuel enrichment — effectively double the cost of power from a reactor the age and size of Trojan. These figures do not include the costs of waste management and decommissioning. It is for reasons such as these that Peter Bergel, the state campaign manager for Measure 7, likes the voter approval aspect of the bill. “We’ve been finding that there are a lot of other ways to meet energy needs,” Bergel says. “ Conservation is a big one. Solar. Hydro. Geothermal. Industrial co-generation. In Germany they reuse close to 40 percent of their industrial power. In the U.S. it’s about 6 percent. The cost of these alternatives has come down over the last few years, while the cost of nuclear has gone up. Right now the alternatives cost roughly the same or less as nuclear, without the safety problems. If we keep dumping dollars into the nukes, where are we going to get the capital to develop the alternatives? “ Another strong point in our favor is that these alternatives create more jobs, substantially more jobs, than an equal amount of money spent on nuclear power creates. We think that the more people find put about the alternatives the less favorably they’ll view nuclear. They have a right to decide what gets done with their money.” In response to those who say that Measure 7 effectively constitutes a ban on nuclear energy, Bergel counters, “ The only way this thing constitutes a ban is if the industry can’t deliver on their promise of the last 20 I i | What the ( ri aj | Though Measure 7 was clearly not drafted by the utilities, critics o f nuclear | z power arc not 100% behind it. Uayd Marbett, an intervenor fo r seven years | | just afraid that waste disposal problem is not the greatest problem with the f | can bet the industry will do everything it can to win the siting election. | to confront the issue. ” i nniiiiiinniiiinniiiinnnniinttniiitnnniinnniiiiinmimimniiiiiiiminiiiitnniiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniililinniiiiimniiii? years that there is such a thing as safe disposal of nuclear wastes. Or if the people of Oregon decide that there are better things that can be done with their billions than building another white elephant.” pORftLTTftpiZZB "Wwho sleep on futon sleep best." Northwest Futon Co. WHOLE WHEAT OR WHITE CREST COMPLETE DELI IMPORTED&DOMESTICBEER&WINE SUBSANDWICHES&SALADS HOURS Traditional Japanese Cotton Mattresses 3159 S.6. Belmont 238-0936 ■ ................................ CALL AHEAD YOUR ORDER WILL BE READY WHEN YOU ARRIVE TUES-WED-THURS-SUN 4 PM - 10 PM FRI & SAT 5 PM - 12 MIDNIGHT TO GOCLOSED MONDAY 232-2812 2239 SEHAWTHORNE BV. You Can Pick Your Nose, But . . . Illustration by Dana Hoyle Dear friends, gen tle read e rs , fed-up citizens, It's b een said that you can pick your friends and you can p ick your nose, bu t you can 't p ick your friend 's nose. We h e re at The Clinton St. Quarterly cou ldn 't ag re e more. But we 'd like you to consider the possibility that you can p ick a be tte r pe riod ica l . If you 've grown tired of the snotty a ttitude , shoddy repo r tage and overall lack of class of your daily or weekly new spape r, then it's time to switch to The Clinton St. Quarterly. The Quarterly is our own specia l b lend of hard -h itting fea ture journalism and senseless, nutso commentary, and it's sure to take the unseem ly "mellow '' out of your read ing , much the way Babo removes mildew from your shower cu rta in . lust to show you how good our p ap e r really is, we 're go ing to se ll you four copies of this absolutely free journal for five do llars. You h e a rd us, five dollars! So that you won't think we've gone comp le te ly bonkers, however, we 're go ing to throw five free Clinton St. Thea tre passes into the ba rga in . . . that m eans four fresh, c lean copies of the Northwest's most titillating tab lo id and five free evenings in Po r tland 's p roudes t movie emporium for five dollars! Four plus five p lus five . . . that's fou rteen , folks! We really have gone a round the b end . Here is my five dollars. Hurry up and send me my four CSQs and five theatre passes before they ship you guys to the funny farm. Name ________ ____________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________ __________________ _ C i t y S t a t e Zip mail to: The CSQ 2522 SE Clinton St. Portland, OR 97222 16
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