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Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt
eldavojohn writes "Remember those 30 new nuclear reactors the US was slated to build? Those plans have been halted. A few years ago, it seemed like a really good idea to build a bunch of nuclear reactors. The environmental impacts of other energy production methods were becoming well known and the economy was tanking. Well, natural gas is now much cheaper, and as a result it looks like building a single nuclear reactor in Maryland is such a risky venture that Constellation can't reach an agreement with the federal government for the loans it needs to build that reactor. The government wants Constellation to sign an agreement with a local energy provider to ensure they'll recoup at least some of the money on the loan, but Constellation doesn't like the terms. So, the first of those thirty reactors has officially stalled, with no resolution in sight. It looks like it'd take an economic meltdown to trigger nuclear reactor production in the US."
Bull Fucking Shit!
The problem is banks won't lend the money to build a nuclear power plants. When banks have lent money they have lost it because of cost over-runs!
It's not the government jackass.
Wind will scale moron.
Keep blaming the government but the reality is it costs ALOT of money to build a nuclear plant and banks aren't willing to take that risk!
The problems with your theory:
None of those are problems in the least as they are all accounted for in the accounting. Period.
#1 Already receive subsidy to offset most of these costs. Also have liability caps to ensure insurability. Again, everything is already included in their plans. This has zero factor aside what has already been considered.
#2 Not an issue. See #1 above. Not a factor in the least.
#3 Bullshit point which doesn't make sense in the least.
Long story short, as insightful as some moderators believe your post to be for whatever reason, its completely irrelevant and not the least bit insightful.