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> I looked up the cost, nuclear waste costs massively eclipse all other energy subsidies It's be really good if you shared how you arrived at this conclusion.
by Manuel_D 3y ago
> I looked up the cost, nuclear waste costs massively eclipse all other energy subsidies
It's be really good if you shared how you arrived at this conclusion. Because renewables have received $11 billion in subsidies in 2016 alone [1]. By comparison, nuclear waste management is already factored into the up-front costs of nuclear power plants [2]. Deep dig nuclear waste repositories like Onkalo cost less than a billion euros to store decades worth of nuclear waste [3].
I'm very, very interested how you reached the conclusion that the cost of storing nuclear waste "massively eclipse" all other energy subsidies. You are very likely mistaking the cost of managing waste from nuclear weapons production [4], which is distinct from nuclear power generation.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...
2. https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedfiles/org/info/pdf/economicsnp.pdf https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedfiles/org/info/pdf/eco...
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
4. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106081#:~:text=Fast%20Facts,the%20cleanup%2C%20like%20maintaining%20roads https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106081#:~:text=Fast%20Fa....