The Answer to Climate Change Is Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

[rhett o rick]

5. Please provide links to your statistics. Common sense says that you are wrong.

The cost of nuclear plants is out of sight, regardless of whose fault.

The cost of decommissioning and taking care of all the nuclear plant waste is extremely high. A cost that many power companies are postponing by continually "extending" the design life well beyond what engineers have advised. Most likely the taxpayers will foot the entire bill. This cost has not been factored into the cost of energy from a nuclear plant.

The risk is so high that no insurance company will insure a nuclear power plant. The taxpayers assume the risk.

Today there is a huge financial debt being "kicked down the road" with tens of thousands of spent fuel being temporarily stored across this country waiting for a decision as to what to do with it permanently. The cost of this disposal hasnt been yet factored into the cost of energy from a nuclear plant.

Private corporations are extending the life of existing power plants well beyond their design life to squeeze every bit of profit they can. But the risk of an accident increases greatly. Who do you trust? The corporations?

The power plants themselves and the stockpiles of highly radioactive spent fuels may be targets for terrorists that could reek havoc.

Cooling nuclear plants directly effects the change of our climate.