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Title: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: Ksheed on Mar 31, 2016, 09:23
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/nuclear-power-once-cheap-squeezed-by-mounting-costs (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/nuclear-power-once-cheap-squeezed-by-mounting-costs)
Title: Re: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: Bonds 25 on Mar 31, 2016, 09:33
Kinda hard to be "cheap" when youre forced to spend 70 million on beyond design basis "upgrades" due to an EPIC earthquake and resulting tsunami that happened in another Country.

Kinda hard to understand this requirement when your plant is 3 1/2 hours from the coast  ::)
Title: Re: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: Marlin on Mar 31, 2016, 11:13
Dinosaurs are harder to manage, evolution should have seen them go extinct.
Title: Re: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: Mounder on Apr 03, 2016, 09:43
Americans will rise up to consume the glut in cheap fuel. We always do.
Title: Re: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: GLW on Apr 03, 2016, 10:17
Quote from: Mounder on Apr 03, 2016, 09:43
Americans will rise up to consume the glut in cheap fuel. We always do.

in ten decades, cheap energy has done more to superannuate servitude, entrench freedoms, and raise the median standard of living than all the philosophers, prophets, emperors, kings, clergymen, and dreamers of the previous ten millennium,...

without cheap energy there are the few high and the multitudes of the low,...

cheap energy makes freedom a condition to enjoy as opposed to an ideal to strive towards,...

cheap energy makes wide the opportunities for financial success and personal autonomy for the many,...

cheap energy is the foundation of a democratic and egalitarian society which walks the talk,...
Title: Re: Nuclear Power, Once Cheap, Squeezed by Mounting Costs
Post by: Marlin on Apr 03, 2016, 11:16
Quote from: GLW on Apr 03, 2016, 10:17
in ten decades, cheap energy has done more to superannuate servitude, entrench freedoms, and raise the median standard of living than all the philosophers, prophets, emperors, kings, clergymen, and dreamers of the previous ten millennium,...

without cheap energy there are the few high and the multitudes of the low,...

cheap energy makes freedom a condition to enjoy as opposed to an ideal to strive towards,...

cheap energy makes wide the opportunities for financial success and personal autonomy for the many,...

cheap energy is the foundation of a democratic and egalitarian society which walks the talk,...

well put, the greenies in an effort to save us from their dream of an apocalyptic future that is mainly a daydream are killing the poor and destitute of the emerging world by taking away cheap plentiful energy. It is not that we should not persue renewable energy just not at a pace that does little but assuage the consciousness of pseudo environmentalists.

Let the peons eat solar and wind.

 [coffee]