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My guess is that one reason for nuclear power's relatively high cost is that they must spend large amounts on safety while their primary competition, carbon-bas
by hackuser 12y ago
My guess is that one reason for nuclear power's relatively high cost is that they must spend large amounts on safety while their primary competition, carbon-based power, gets a free ride from the rest of society on their safety costs, especially climate change. Nuclear pays for its own safety (AFAIK); who pays for climate change prevention, mitigation, and damage (e.g., hurricanes, seawalls, droughts, etc.)? The taxpayers.
Make carbon pay to clean up the mess it creates, and nuclear will look much more attractive.
- ljf 12y agoWhile nuclear pays for site safety, it is the tax payer that covers the decommissioning and future waste storage / processing. As the costs for this is just so obscenely high that no private company would be involved if they had to pay for it from the meager profits they'd made from the electricity they'd produced. So once again it is the tax payer that covers the damage.