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If the cost of disposing spent fuel is "such a bargain", then the nuclear industry should pay for it themselves.
(but we know they won't)
Furthermore, the nuclear industry should pay the full cost of disposing depleted UF6 (from U enrichment plants)....
(but we know they won't)
...and the remaining US enrichment facilities should be RE-privatized and allowed to sink or swim without taxpayer subsidies....
(but we know it won't happen)
...and the nuclear industry - not the taxpayers - should fund the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, and pay the claims of uranium workers that suffered sickness and death as the result of their exposure to radiation and beryllium at US uranium enrichment plants....
(but we know it won't happen)
...and the nuclear industry - not the taxpayers - should pay the full cost of decommissioning US uranium mines...
(but we know they won't do it)
Such a bargain???
I think not.
Finally, if new nuclear power plants were "such a bargain" then US utilities would be building them - but they're not.
Instead, individuals and corporations are building PV arrays, wind farms and biogas plants as these are the only truly sustainable energy alternatives that exist - now or in the future.
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