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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I'll give a 100% pass on all safety and disposal problems for nuclear. Done.

New nuclear is not happening because of a little thing called economics. It simply is not cost completive with other zero carbon alternatives. [/quote]

Nuclear engineer again. Didn't realize this post had kept going.

Nuclear is, by far, the cheapest of all the zero-carbon options, and especially so when considering that it operates at night and on non-windy days. [/quote]

Not went you have an accident and there is always an accident. It’s not if but when it happens. [/quote]

Better safety record than all other forms of generation over the past 60 years, even solar and wind, accounting for Chernobyl and Fukushima. [/quote]

The risk from a nuclear plant never really goes away. When you shut down a natural gas plant, the risk is gone. When you dismantle wind turbines, the risk is gone. When you’ve shut down the coal plant and dealt with the byproducts, the risk goes down[b] as the environment heals itself. [/b]Spent fuel rods are a risk that never goes away. As long as they exist, the danger is there. And if something were to ever happen to a plant or a fuel rod storage facility, the land is done forever and itself remains a risk. Look what Russia is doing to Chernobyl. 30+ years on and the risk is still there. [/quote]

Well, I think we are seeing that even mother nature can handle only so much to heal itself. [/quote]

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