Under Clinton no one applied for a license to build a new nuclear plant - amendments or no amendments.
They just cost too damned much to build and operate.
...and wannabe nuclear plant owners had to pay ALL the application fees (millions of dollars per application).
Under ChimpCo, the taxpayers pay half the cost of the license application.
...and take on most of the financial risk of building the plant...
...and pay nuclear plant owners if the NRC delays construction for any reason...
...and heavily subsidize the production of nuclear electricity...
...AND nuclear plant operators will charge taxpayers as much as they can for this electricity - WTF does this do for the Common Good????
...AND a recent study indicated that life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power plants are greater than natural gas-fired plants of similar capacity - WTF does this do for the Common Good????
The US doesn't have the uranium enrichment capacity to support 250 new nuclear plants.
...and it doesn't have the uranium resources to support 250 new nuclear power plants...
...and it doesn't have a repository to accommodate the spent fuel from 250 new nuclear power plants...let alone what is on hand now...
But there is room in the Democratic Party for vegan pro-nuclear anti-solar anti-Greenpeace inventors of Magical Super Secret Molten Salt Breeder Reactors who believe in radiation hormesis, and who support Bush administration energy policy.
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