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> The cost of nuclear energy seems seriously understated. Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’l
by SECProto 4y ago
> The cost of nuclear energy seems seriously understated. Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’ll incur this cost for hundreds or thousands of years.
Wait til you hear about the costs of fossil fuel waste storage!
- ncmncm 4y agoFortunately, that is not the alternative: fossil fuel use is already uncompetitive, so on its way down. But not fast enough, as societal inertia props it up against what cost favors.
- SECProto 4y ago> Fortunately, that is not the alternative: fossil fuel use is already uncompetitive Maybe where you live the grid operators are being progressive with renewables as an alternative. Where I am, a couple nuclear reactors are reaching EOL and we're going to have a huge increase in carbon emissions, as electricity from zero carbon nuclear gets replaced with natural gas (with little probability of this changing, with the ruling party having cancelled all the renewable projects a few years ago and just having won re-election). https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/05/09/ontario-energy-grid-emissions-set-to-skyrocket-400-as-ford-government-forced-to-crank-up-the-gas.html https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/05/09/ontario-energy-g...
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoYou're right, fossil fuel waste storage costs aren't the alternative to nuclear waste storage costs. We've chosen to have to deal with both fairly indefinitely, for any time scale we're likely to want to talk about.