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Re:Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power by ljf on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:03AM (#8248745)
It's cheaper if you heavily subsidise it and remove all future (unknown) decommissioning and waste storage costs and let the state pick those up...
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Re:Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power by D_Alex on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:26AM (#8248769)
To be fair, using natural gas has an unknown future cost (global warming) which is not (properly and generally) reflected in either the cost of the gs fired power stations or the gas fuel itself.
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Re:Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power by ljf on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:39AM (#8248788)
Total agree, we should also be charging the coal/gas fired energy producers for the actual clean up costs, then it would be interesting to see which people want to invest in.
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