“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Following the accident at TMI, and aside from the great fears “generated” by it, a host of problems began accumulating for the nuclear power industry—involving everything from poor plant design (as Seth commented in the 914th session for Chapter 7 of Dreams), to enormous cost overruns and the fear of default on bond issues, shoddy construction and quality control, human and mechanical error, the disposal of radioactive waste, conflicts with antinuclear and environmental groups, arguments over evacuation plans at various nuclear-plant sites, a greatly expanded list of steps (numbering in the thousands) that the NRC is compiling for utilities to take in order to increase the safety of their plants, and even governmental concern over the possible manipulation and falsification of plant safety records. The last nuclear plant was ordered in 1978. So far this year our country’s consumption of electricity has increased less than 2 percent, and it is now expected to actually decrease next year. Unheard of, in view of all of those predictions that we must continue to build nuclear power generating plants to meet projected demands!

“In high school, I flunked algebra twice, then passed, and I think the same for geometry,” she said. “Most of it I couldn’t get—the teachers just went too fast. When I did understand something I’d get real excited. Sometimes I’d work out the correct answer to a problem, but do it the wrong way, so the teacher would mark it wrong—and that always made me furious. I even had trouble figuring out the cost of ounces of candy when I had that job in the five-and-dime store. I don’t know how many free pounds of candy I must have given out….”