Ontario's power glut means possible nuclear plant shutdowns

[PamW]

39. BALONEY!!!!

It is irrelevant since your assertion of fact in post #5 was, yet again, false.
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You really "think" ( term used loosely ) that 1% of the Federal budget was subsidies to nuclear power???

I've heard this yarn many times before, and whenever I ask some anti-nuke to point to the line items that are subsidies that make up this 1%; the responses I get always point to the nuclear weapons budget.

I also remember one time when the anti-nuke points to a line-item labeled "nuclear power". However if one reads the text for that line item, the "nuclear power" that it refers to is the purchase of RTGs ( radioisotope thermal generators ) aka "atomic batteries" for use on NASA deep-space probes like Voyager and Cassinni. Sure, the purchase of RTGs for NASA is a subsidy to commercial nuclear power plants.

The anti-nukes also total in any potential payouts by the Government for 2nd-tier Price-Anderson liability; ignoring the fact that the Government is reimbursed. Above all; the Government has NEVER expended dollar ONE on Price-Anderson. The most significant nuclear accident in the USA was Three Mile Island, and it came no where near the expenditure to trigger 2nd-tier liability outlays. ALL the liability for TMI ( hotel bills for evacuees ) was covered by commercial liability insurance, which the anti-nukes claim doesn't exist.

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.

PamW