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Compared to ? Trusting people to manage coal power plants, mines, off shore platforms, oil tankers, &c. ?
> At the moment of reckoning when a reactor must finally be shutdown, you can bet a swift bankruptcy followed by skyrocketing local electricity rates.
France - lot of nuclear reactors : 13ct per KWh
Germany - shutting down nuclear reactors, still heavily relying on coal : 30ct per KWh
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Compared to ? Trusting people to manage coal power plants, mines, off shore platforms, oil tankers, &c. ?
> At the moment of reckoning when a reactor must finally be shutdown, you can bet a swift bankruptcy followed by skyrocketing local electricity rates.
France - lot of nuclear reactors : 13ct per KWh
Germany - shutting down nuclear reactors, still heavily relying on coal : 30ct per KWh