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To: Sam Citron who wrote (158390)	2/22/2005 5:23:33 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Nuclear energy is cheap compared to alternative sources> Only if you don't consider the externalized costs, which are huge. In the nuclear power plants built in the U.S. 20-40 years ago, they routinely assigned a ridiculously low number for the future costs. They would put aside $10 million to cover costs that ended up costing over a billion. Those externalized and deferred costs end up, one way or another, being shifted to the taxpayer. The externalized costs are: 1. decommissioning the plant 2. long-term waste storage 3. insurance (unavailable from private insurance companies, at any cost) 4. security risk (nuclear power plants are a much more tempting terrorist target than, say, windmills).