...and never was:
"Nuclear energy is never profitable", new study slams nuclear power business case..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127130185
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=130197
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While examining the history of nuclear power development globally, DIW Berlin found that it was military considerations that were the primary driver of nuclear reactor developments, with power generation a secondary product.
“The further development of nuclear weapons and other military applications was the focus. Nuclear power plants were primarily designed to be “plutonium factories with appended electricity production,” the DIW Berlin report said.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=127786
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For years, my concerns about nuclear energy’s cost and safety were always tempered by a growing fear of climate catastrophe. But Fukushima provided a good test of just how important nuclear power was to slowing climate change: In the months after the accident, all nuclear reactors in Japan were shuttered indefinitely, eliminating production of almost all of the country’s carbon-free electricity and about 30 percent of its total electricity production. Naturally, carbon emissions rose, and future emissions-reduction targets were slashed.
Would shutting down plants all over the world lead to similar results? Eight years after Fukushima, that question has been answered. Fewer than 10 of Japan’s 50 reactors have resumed operations, yet the country’s carbon emissions have dropped below their levels before the accident. How? Japan has made significant gains in energy efficiency and solar power. It turns out that relying on nuclear energy is actually a bad strategy for combating climate change: One accident wiped out Japan’s carbon gains. Only a turn to renewables and conservation brought the country back on target.
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The real cause for elevated CO2 is the use of fossil fuels, and (if you require, or are seeped in, hyperbole) the nuclear power industry's failure to live up to the implied promise from Lewis Strauss, then
chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, who in a 1954 speech to the National Association of Science Writers said:
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
Blame does not belong with the nascent renewable energy efforts of today.
Nuclear power has failed to live up to its promise, it has failed us here and now, the world, and our children's future.
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