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6. It is not denying science, it is acknowledging the reality of waste disposal and safety issues
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 01:45 PM
Feb 2013

How many billions have been spent on nuclear waste cleanup? The Nuclear energy industry likes to pretend that they can just run these plants and the waste magically disappears. They always neglect the real, long term costs of disposal, which STILL haven't been resolved in this country. And all it takes is one accident, like Fukushima or TMI, and all the profits ever accumulated by a company go poof.

Nuclear energy is not cost effective when all costs are considered.

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