Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
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Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
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Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#2Who really killed nuclear power? I bet if you traced all the financial donations to all the environmental groups and people who have opposed nuclear power, you will find a lot of oil dictatorships and oil companies.
Follow the money...
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#3Who really killed nuclear power? I bet if you traced all the financial donations to all the environmental groups and people who have opposed nuclear power, you will find a lot of oil dictatorships and oil companies. Follow the money...
iirc that's one of Michael Shellenberger's points in Apocalypse Never.
i feel like he has a specific agenda so it's hard to take everything he says at face value but that point seems reasonable.
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#4Who really killed nuclear power? I bet if you traced all the financial donations to all the environmental groups and people who have opposed nuclear power, you will find a lot of oil dictatorships and oil companies. Follow the money...
This is discussed in the article.
>Instead of reexamining their energy vision, the greens have committed themselves to promoting energy poverty. In part, they’ve stayed the course because doing so has made them lots of money. The Environmental Defense Fund and the NRDC have a combined budget of nearly $384 million, for example... A recent study found that “tax-motivated investors in today’s renewable energy deals are typically a highly restricted set of the US’s largest banks, insurance companies, and financial institutions” who “have been joined more recently by a handful of giant corporations like Google and Amazon.” Those who reap the rewards of the tax breaks are also some of the biggest donors to climate change causes that back renewables-only policies.
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#5Who Killed Nuclear Energy? The absurd cost to build this technology and the emergence of much more cost-effective and emission-free alternatives. It's as simple as that. It wasn't the tree-huggers or a big conspiracy.
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#6I worked in commercial nuclear power for a while, including a stint at three mile island. The regulatory compliance burden alone, from the NRC and DOE, is crippling financially.
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#7I blame Naked Gun 2½
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#8> France’s nuclear buildout, beginning in the 1970s, achieved the greatest decarbonization in human history; ... In North America, the mantle belongs to Ontario, whose nuclear plants replaced its coal fleet.1
I am dubious of this claim, but it probably depends on exactly how you define it. But switching from a country to a province immediately sends up red flags.
Re: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
#9Who really killed nuclear power? I bet if you traced all the financial donations to all the environmental groups and people who have opposed nuclear power, you will find a lot of oil dictatorships and oil companies. Follow the money...
As regulated utilities the operators of nuclear power plants sold electricity to the grid on a cost plus basis. The larger their costs, the more their profit. So a lot of it was these operators rather than oil companies pushing for ALARA standards. Normally regulators would prevent huge, useless expenditures on their parts but now they weren't able to.
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#10The Washington Public Power Supply System was the biggest municipal default in US history.