Gillispie and AEHI have made claims that don't stand up to scrutiny

Dear editor:

Check out the other side of all the promotional claims made by AEHI and Don Gillespie (CEO).

Where is the plan? There is no plan submitted for a nuclear plant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or anywhere that can be determined. You have to have a plan in order to know if your land is appropriate or if you have enough water.

There is not enough money for Mr. Gillespie to purchase the land and build a plant. Building a 1600 megawatt nuclear plant will cost up to 12 billion dollars; and according to the New York Stock Exchange as of April 25, 2009, AEHI has a negative income for the last 12 months of $3.82 million (-3.82 million).

Mr. Gillespie has said at the last meeting on April 22, 2009 with the County Commissioners that his company will be solely funded by the private sector with no Federal Government funds. This is a very tall order. It is very possible that Mr. Gillespie intends to sell his company or company plans to another corporation for his own gain. What corporation with expertise and money would buy his plan to put a nuclear plant in a high desert area with limited water. Other existing plants in the Southwest and Northwest are located where there is an abundance of water, not on a river subject to drought conditions that is already over used and over adjudicated.

There is not enough land on this site for the cooling ponds needed for a 1600 megawatt reactor that is water cooled.

There are not enough water rights for a water cooled 1600 megawatt reactor on the 1280 acre site being considered.

There is no such technology for using only 100,000 gallons of water per day to cool a 1600 megawatt reactor. It is estimated to be more like 25-35 million gallons of water per day.

Where are the jobs? In fact Mr. Gillespie is dangling the prospect of jobs that don't exist at this time, and if they ever were to materialize it would be many years down the line.

There is no place to store the waste. The only place to store toxic radioactive waste is right on the site itself, as the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada will no longer receive nuclear waste. This leaves nuclear radioactive waste for your children and grandchildren and generations beyond to always contend with.

The above information has been submitted by,

Jeremy Thomas

Hammett, Idaho