NEIS’ Gail Snyder talks about the Green New Deal on the Nuclear Hotseat Show. Is nuclear energy in or out?
Where in the world will the next nuclear power accident happen? Maybe in Scotland...
“As these technologies continue to scale, they continue to experience steep cost declines, making the idea of a nuclear alternative vanishingly unrealistic.”
“the cost of nuclear is now more than three times the cost of wind or solar”
“Nuclear’s competition with efficiency, renewable energy and batteries is over, and we should be glad of it. After all, renewables and efficiency provide about five times as many jobs per dollar invested as nuclear power and don’t impose nuclear power’s risks of long-term radiation, accidents, unresolved and vastly expensive nuclear waste disposal challenges or the potential to provide materials for nuclear bombs — issues that most citizens are or should be concerned about.”
“Nuclear energy has played an important if expensive role in providing low-carbon power, and these plants should operate as long as they are safe.”
NEIS would disagree with this statement. Paraphrasing Arnie Gundersen, “All it takes is one bad day.” and a once ‘safe’ nuclear energy facility becomes a nuclear disaster, an expensive one.