This is the perpetual claim of the pro-nuclear lobby here, but yet
again, just as with TNP, It's just so much hot air - you give no
FIGURES in support of your argument.

Meanwhile, here are some actual, real figures, which already you seem
to have forgotten, even though they were only posted in the fracking
thread on 22nd August :-(

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...United_Kingdom
"However The Times reported the cost of building each EPR reactor had
increased to £7 billion, which Citigroup analysts did not regard as
commercially viable, projecting a generation cost of 16.6p/kWh for
private-sector financed reactors."

.... in a little more detail ...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8470XC20120508
"A report from the Times newspaper on Monday said French nuclear
developer EDF had raised the cost of building a nuclear power plant to
7 billion pounds from 4.5 billion pounds last year.

"If the latest cost figures are true, new nuclear power plants in the
UK are not commercially viable," Citi analyst Peter Atherton told
Reuters. Based on the new figures, nuclear would be the most
expensive form of electricity generation, exceeding even offshore
wind, he said. "The only way they could be built is if the
construction risk was transferred to the taxpayer," Atherton said,
equating to a multi-billion pound government insurance policy.

EDF's Flamanville reactor, which is under construction in France, is
running four years late and at least double its original budget."

Note: The figure of £7bn does not include the costs of
decommissioning at end-of-life and handling waste; it is unclear
whether or not the 16.6p/kWh unit cost of electricity does so.
"""

On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:49:07 +0100, Nightjar
wrote:

When you work out the true cost, including all fuel mining and transport
costs and everything from breaking ground to final decommissioning,
nuclear costs about the same as coal, half to one third the cost of wind
power and one fifth the cost of solar PV.
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