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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (18924)

6/30/2012 12:51:13 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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Cal already gets 20% from renewables and another 20% from hydropower. Half our nukes are shut down because of technical problems beyond their control.

An Ocean of Subsidies
Posted on February 5, 2012by Richard Bell

Reader Michael Ingram reminds us that there are four investors in the two new nuclear plants in Georgia– Southern (Georgia Power), Oglethorpe, MEAG, and Dalton Utilities—and that the federal government’s loan would be shared proportionally among them.
nukespeak.org

Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies
Download: Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies (2011) | Nuclear Power Subsidies: Executive Summary (2011)
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In the paper "Nuclear Power : the energy balance" by J.W. Storm and P. Smith (2005) download here, the authors calculate that with high quality ores, the CO2 produced by the full nuclear life cycle is about one half to one third of an equivalent sized gas-fired power station.

For low quality ores (less than 0.02% of U3O8 per tonne of ore), the CO2 produced by the full nuclear life cycle is EQUAL TO that produced by the equivalent gas-fired power station.

energybulletin.net