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The Economic Disaster of New Nukes
Posted by timethief • 6/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: areva, economics, energy, Global-Warming, nuciear power, nuclear-reactors, us- nuclear- regulatory- commission
- In a devastating pair of financial reports that might be called "The Emperor Has No Pressure Vessel," the New York Times has blazed new light on the catastrophic economics of atomic power
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/business/energy-environment/29nuke.html?_r=1&scp...
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/canada-mulls-sale-of-reactor-maker/
The two Business Section specials cover the fiasco of new French construction at Okiluoto, Finland, and the virtual collapse of Atomic Energy of Canada. In a sane world they could comprise an epitaph for the "Peaceful Atom". But they come simultaneous with Republican demands for up to $700 billion or more in new reactor construction.
neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2009/05/lamar-alexander-goes-for-even-hundred....
Read the full article here -> www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=pt/Whole&qid=2908
Discussion:
Slow nukes or no nukes?
What say you in response to the Republican push for the US to build as many as 100 new reactors here, even though the private sector won't finance or insure them.?
User Comments
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This was not a normal reactor but an experiment in making the biggest and best. Whenever you push as they did, there will always be dangers involved and they failed to meet them.
Our reactors are not going to be built to "be something special." They will be standard, run-of-the-mill, partially prefabricated reactors that, in decades of construction, have very seldom had any kind of cost overrun. In fact timethief, the danger of overruns at a nuclear plant is considerably less then the danger of overruns at an Alt Energy plant, like a solar plant, whose technology is very new FOR THAT VERY REASON.
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