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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 11:46 AM
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1. The CEO of Entergy says nuclear remains too costly: "the numbers just don't work."
As Al Gore has pointed out, "We have all the tools we need to solve 3 or 4 climate crises"
New nuclear plants are not needed, and the money could be spent on alternatives which are faster and cheaper.
None of the major environmental organizations support nuclear energy as a solution to global warming.

Even the CEO's of some of the largest nuclear power companies in the US say new nuclear is too expensive:
The CEO of Entergy says nuclear remains too costly: "the numbers just don't work."
The CEO of Exelon says "Time isn't really right for a substantial increase in the nuclear fleet. Neither the politics nor the economics are there yet."

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