Reply #40: costs "16 times as much as nuclear" ... Oh really?

[garybeck]

Now I get it. You're all disinformation. You must work for the nuclear industry. If you're going to throw out garbage like that why don't you tell everyone how much they really cost, when you factor in the huge subsidies that we are all paying with our tax dollars?

Despite initial claims of "too cheap to meter," nuclear power in the United States has become too expensive to afford. The nuclear industry has received over the years, 60 percent of all federal energy research and development dollars. Yet customers of nuclear utilities still pay far higher prices than their conventionally supplied counterparts.

A 1993 Energy Information Agency study found the average bill from a nuclear utility was more than two dollars per kilowatt hour higher and nearly $17 per month than from a conventional utility.

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One of the primary problems with nuclear power is its inability to perform without substantial federal and state subsidies. According to the Congressional Research Service, the nuclear industry has received more than $66 billion in taxpayer research and development subsidies since its inception.

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0519-04.htm