Fun report out today. It appears that the subsidies necessary to get wind power going are some 4 times what we would need to spend to provide the same power via nuclear stations. Trying to get a copy of the report to check those claims.
Wind Costs More Than Nuclear.
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It’ssimple physics. Wind power is very dilute. Nuclear power is v dense. Even wave power has got greater long-term promise than wind-power: much denser.
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What nuclear costs, do these costs include storage, site cleanup, treatment for cancer victims?
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Storage Costs I’ll grant you. But site cleanup? Cancer victims? Do you actually know anything about nuclear power at all bar the usual bogeyman rantings of anti-nuclear greens?
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I am sorry that your mind reading abilities are soo poor that you’ll have give up your act.
I am not a green, but I do know that in the UK and US there have been huge costs incured in sotorage, clean up and there are higher cases of cancer around nuclear plants.
Where I lived in the US, down wind from the plant had high cases of cancer.
Do you actually know anything about nuclear?
Tim adds: I do know a lot about nuclear. Sorry, vague stories of “higher cancer rates” don’t impress me. Look up a little in this blog and you’ll see another post on nuclear and Chernobyl. You’ll actually see the real figures for those killed by nuclear power generation, and a comparison of them to power generation by burning coal. The worst nuclear accident ever killed 1% of those killed by coal every year in the US.
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I’ve never heard any ‘vague stories’ about cancer.
I lived near the nuclear plant in Washington state, and cancer rates down wind were bad.
What are the costs of nuclear including, storage, cleanup and cancer treatment. No answer so far, perhaps never.
Estimates of nuclear cleanup in the US were 1.5 Trillion dollars, that was about 14 years ago.
Huge nuclear costs? Sure. What, you thought it was all free?
Tim adds: “Were bad” is a vague story. Who studied it, where, when? Does nuclear kill more or less than coal? More or less than having no electricity? -
I know how things were 15 years ago when I lived nearby.
I ask again.
What are the costs of nuclear including, storage, cleanup and cancer treatment. No answer so far, perhaps never.
Do these statistcis include cleanup? Do they include storage?
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TT, can you provide statistics on morbidity/mortality rates around nuclear plants? Measured emissions from nuclear plants are almost always a very small fraction of normal background radiation, which we are exposed to all our lives to no measurable effect. Can you explain the mechanism by which this incremental addition to ambient radiation levels suddenly starts to kill people?
As for your question about costs: here in Canada, the cost of nuclear power includes storage, disposal and decommissioning costs. I believe it’s the same for the US. As far as I know, nuclear power is the only energy technology that internalizes its costs so completely.
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