On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:24:25 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

David Nebenzahl wrote:


Nuclear power, on its own, is clean, cheap, and reliable. It's certainly
clean - the only thing it emits is heat.

And radiation, and lots of radioactive waste that no one has yet
found an acceptable safe way of disposing of. It is all sitting in on
sight storage, costing us taxpayers money while producing no power.

Building a nuclear power plant is
relatively cheap - it can cost on the same order as a coal-fired plant.

Care to provide numbers. Please include full life cycle cost,
including full cost of decommissioning.


What makes the cost so bizarre is the anti-nuclear movement! Fifteen years
of litigation, design changes ten times the requirements of engineering best
practices, abundant political machinations, all contribute to the bill. Who
needs the grief?