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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The price isn't right Nuclear power is expensive	Joseph Romm	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In mid-2007, a Keystone Center nuclear report (PDF), funded in part by the nuclear industry estimated capital costs for nuclear of $3600 to $4000/kW including interest. The report notes, 'the power isn't cheap: 8.3 to 11.1 cents per kilo-watt hour.' In December 2007, retail electricity prices in this country averaged 8.9 cents per kwh. Mid-2007 has already become the good old days for affordable nuclear power. Jim Harding, who was on the Keystone Center panel and was ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Nukes, part II: nuclear bomb Bite-sized version of longer nuke study is on Salon	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If you are looking for a shorter, more readable version of my study, 'The Self-Limiting Future of Nuclear Power,' I've got just the thing. Salon has published my article, 'Nuclear bomb: Nuclear energy, the sequel, is opening to raves by everybody from John McCain to a Greenpeace co-founder. Don't be fooled. It's the Ishtar of power generation.' As the article points out, back in May 2001, the Economist explained ($ub. req'd) that nuclear power had fallen out of favor ...
Topics: economy, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

You know what they say about a guy with a big footprint? GAO says the electric sector's got a big subsidy to match	Sean Casten	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The GAO has reported on subsidies to our electric sector, proving what Grist readers already (sadly) know, namely that subsidies to the dirty folks vastly exceed existing or proposed subsidies to cleaner generation. The most remarkable thing is that the biggest subsidies, like nuclear liability guarantees and lower debt costs through rate payer guarantees, aren't even included in the list (although, to the GAO's credit, it does acknowledge their existence). So ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, fossil fuels, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

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