American Samizdat

Wednesday, July 06, 2005. *
With all the news on Thorium replacing Uranium coming out recently I thought AmSam readers might enjoy a reminder that it's likely cheaper to burn $1 bills than use nuclear energy.

From The Alternative Energy Blog and in The Australian:

Atomic power stations using high-grade uranium ores would have to run for seven to 10 years before they created enough power to cancel out the energy required to establish them.

Wind power takes just three to six months to do the same.


Not only is nuclear energy still ignoring the waste disposal problems and the very real security issues, it's still hiding behind the true cost of nuclear energy by focusing soley on the massive output that's generated once they're complete instead of looking at the full life cycle.
posted by ben at 10:49 AM
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