Nuclear power is still too costly and too risky (DSM Register)

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Interesting piece:

Nuclear power is still too costly and too risky

Written by
DR. MAUREEN McCUE, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Iowa coordinator of Physicians for Social Responsibility

FIRST, nuclear power is still too costly to compete. The Energy Information Administration's annual outlook for 2011 reports that new wind power, new biomass plants, existing power plants that switch to co-generation, and even new coal plants are all less expensive than nuclear power.

SECOND, nuclear power is too risky to compete. Numerous nuclear power plants including New York's Shoreham, Tennessee's Clinch River, and Alabama's Bellefonte plants have all been cancelled for safety reasons after utilities spent billions of dollars building them.

THIRD, nuclear power has unresolved safety and security problems. Omitted from Heising's discussion and that of other proponents of nuclear power is any mention of the danger of weapons proliferation or the catastrophic consequences of nuclear releases and accidents.

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