nucular!

[stas]

On Tuesday, President Obama will announce plans to break ground on two new nuclear reactors at a Southern Company plant in Burke, Georgia -- the first new U.S. nuclear reactors since the incident at Three Mile Island in 1979.

Обама решил забить на зелёных радикалов и развивать ядерную энергетику. Это хорошо. Конечно, не обходится без обязательного "а теперь давайте обложим кого-нибудь налогами", но по крайней мере темa ядерной энергетики не является табу, при упоминании её политики уже не бросаются на пол и не бьются в корчах, стеная "радиацые ужос! галактико опасносте!"

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[ygam.livejournal.com]

Tufts economist Gilbert Metcalf concludes that the total cost of juice from a new nuclear plant today is 4.31 cents per kilowatt-hour. That's far more than electricity from a conventional coal-fired plant (3.53 cents) or "clean coal" plant (3.55 cents). When he takes away everyone's tax subsidies, however, Metcalf finds that nuclear power is even less competitive (5.94 cents per kwh versus 3.79 cents and 4.37 cents, respectively).

В расчет не включено загрязнение окружающей среды, которое для угольной электростанции гораздо сильнее, чем для атомной.

Health problems linked to aging coal-fired power plants shorten nearly 24,000 lives a year, including 2,800 from lung cancer, and nearly all those early deaths could be prevented if the U.S. government adopted stricter rules, according to a study released Wednesday.

[hopma.livejournal.com]

"clean coal" is still cheaper than nuclear.
Besides, Taylor's argument is that better approach would be to tax energy to reflect environmental and health costs associated with its production. and if this makes nuclear, or solar, or whatever energy more competitive - market will take care of the rest.

[ygam.livejournal.com]

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