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

[PamW]

7. BALONEY!!!

rhett,

You can't trust your "common sense" when you've OD on anti-nuke propaganda.

WRONG about design life. The 40 years was NEVER the design life but only the first license term.
Decommissioning costs are about $300 to $400 million which the plant EARNS during its life and is set aside in escrow:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/decommissioning.html

You fell for the anti-nuke LIE about no insurance companies willing to insure. They are REQUIRED to have commercial insurance
like the type available from American Nuclear Insurers, as an example:

American Nuclear Insurers

http://www.amnucins.com/

American Nuclear Insurers (ANI) is a joint underwriting association created by some of the largest insurance companies in the United States. Our purpose is to pool the financial assets pledged by our member companies to provide the significant amount of property and liability insurance required for nuclear power plants and related facilities throughout the world.

WRONG about disposal costs.
The US Government / NRC taxes the nuclear utilities to pay for spent fuel disposal; called the "Nuclear Waste Fund":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act

The Act established a Nuclear Waste Fund composed of fees levied against electric utilities to pay for the costs of constructing and operating a permanent repository, and set the fee at one mill per kilowatt-hour of nuclear electricity generated. Utilities were charged a one-time fee for storage of spent fuel created before enactment of the law.

I don't have to trust in either government nor corporations. I trust the SCIENTISTS who say you are WRONG.

WRONG about the cooling too. The waste heat from Rankine steam cycle plants is TRIVIAL; Climate change is caused by SOLAR radiation trapped by CO2 which nuclear plants do NOT emit.

Common sense??? HAH!!!

You just proved that you can only PARROT the LIES of the anti-nukes.

Your knowledge of science being SO BAD that you didn't realize that you were being lied to.

As as scholar; I would hang my head in shame if I were every caught parroting propaganda that I accepted without checking the validity of same. That's "poor form" for a scholar.

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

PamW