Forum Archive Index - May 2004

[Marilyn Munroe <who.c@res.co.nz>]

You make a good point about established hydro power being a licence to print 
money Snoopy.

To wander off topic, some idiot is going to suggest "hey nuclear power is 
cheap to run".

They are of course correct nuclear is cheap to run, but they fail to take into 
account that the byproducts of this process are incredibly toxic and 
difficult to dispose of. No country which has a nuclear power industry has an 
economic or generally public accepted means of disposing the byproducts or 
old reactors.

Any proposal to generate nuclear power will be uneconomic when shutdown costs 
(which in reality are unquantifiable and open ended) are added in.

Boop-boop-de-do Marilyn

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