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I would note that if we let the fossil and nuclear power industries not count their externalized costs they come up with much higher EROEI's than is realistic.

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Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, an industry body, estimates that core cooling systems are not functioning at all three Fukushima Daiichi operating reactors and two of the four reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant are relying on backup cooling systems.

Bigger, but not cheaper In the face of delays the U.S. government recently put money forward to try to jump - start the domestic nuclear power industry.

Sixteen years ago the RCEP told the government that it should not allow any significant expansion of civilian nuclear power until the industry could demonstrate that it knew what to do with radioactive waste.

Fortunately for the industry, one of its biggest obstacles — environmental opposition — is on the decline, though former U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman noted that green groups aren't embracing nuclear power just yet.

Lynas goes on, of course, to explain why he remains in support of harnessing nuclear energy, particularly through advanced reactor designs that don't come with the waste stream and complexity of the light - water reactor design that dominates the industry today — overgrown terrestrial versions of the power source in nuclear submarines.

This can not be overstated — commercial generation of nuclear power (at least in the US) has the most envious safety record of any industry.

So Australians are paying to subsidize the nuclear power industry which is something Australia does not have and never will have.

Like Canada, both Germany and Belgium are Kyoto signatories, but in spite of the nuclear industry's claim that nuclear power is a viable solution to climate change, these countries have recognized that you don't trade one environmental problem for another.

As Petr Beckmann once said, these people don't just want to destroy the nuclear power industry, they want to destroy all large - scale power generation industries.

When the UK privatised its power industry in the 80s and 90s the hard headed guys, who I very much doubt had any «green» sympathies whatsoever, and who enthusiastically bought up conventional power stations wouldn't touch the UK's nuclear stations.

And they can't forget Forbes» 1985 denunciation of nuclear power as industry's «largest managerial disaster.»

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With this track record, it's not surprising that nuclear power has failed to attract private - sector financing — so the industry has looked to government for subsidies, including loan guarantees, tax credits, and other forms of public support.

Missiles replaced by turbines: Replacing the powerful arms industry with the powerful «renewables» industry — of course in both case it doesn't matter that the costly nuclear weapons were never used, likewise it doesn't matter that wind power is useless.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

Suffice to say the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry will not be backing Rud for an appointment to the Trump transition team.

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

A 2009 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that nuclear power would not «make a big difference in reducing carbon emissions in the next two decades, when the biggest reductions will have the most impact,» because the industry could not build enough reactors during that time.

The share of nuclear power in the electricity mix is today 11 % and this will rise to 12 % under current policies, however it must reach 18 % by 2040 to meet COP21 climate targets yet current prices do not provide the necessary signals to nuclear industry investors.

It wouldn't be at all surprising if nuclear power plants were not being sufficiently regulated, as it may be a general problem with all industry, including coal, oil, and also Wall Street.

Nuclear power died in the USA because the industry simply could not deliver on its promises to investors.

If Industry had continued the transition from coal burning plants to nuclear power plants which was underway mid 20th Century, and developed hydrogen powered vehicles, we wouldn't have a CO2 problem today.

«There is no power source that doesn't benefit from federal and state incentives, so it's highly unlikely that coal and nuclear are becoming uncompetitive due to incentives for renewable energy,» said Abigail Ross Hopper, the president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

All Neil has to do is point to a miffle / major modern nation with a reasonable amount of heavy industry and not abundantly blessed with hydro (like Norway) or traditional geothermal (like Iceland) which has managed to achieve the same kind of transition from coal with technosolar renewable power that France has managed with nuclear power.

CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.