Nuclear power – the economic and safety facts

The Truth About Nuclear Power emphasizes the economic and safety aspects by showing that

modern nuclear power plants are uneconomic to operate compared to natural gas and wind energy,
they produce preposterous pricing if they are the sole power source for a grid,
they cost far too much to construct,
use far more water for cooling, 4 times as much, than better alternatives,
nuclear fuel makes them difficult to shut down and requires very costly safeguards,
they are built to huge scale of 1,000 to 1,600 MWe or greater to attempt to reduce costs via economy of scale,
an all-nuclear grid will lose customers to self-generation,
smaller and modular nuclear plants have no benefits due to reverse economy of scale,
large-scale plants have very long construction schedules even without lawsuits that delay construction,
nuclear plants do not reach 50 or 60 years life because they require costly upgrades after 20 to 30 years that do not always perform as designed,
France has 85 percent of its electricity produced via nuclear power but it is subsidized, is still almost twice as expensive as prices in the US, and is only viable due to exporting power at night rather than throttling back the plants during low demand,
nuclear plants cannot provide cheap power on small islands,
US nuclear plants are heavily subsidized but still cannot compete,
projects are cancelled due to unfavorable economics, reactor vendors are desperate for sales, nuclear advocates tout low operating costs and ignore capital costs, nuclear utilities never ask for a rate decrease when building a new nuclear plant, and high nuclear costs are buried in a large customer base,
safety regulations are routinely relaxed to allow the plants to continue operating without spending the funds to bring them into compliance,
many, many near-misses occur each year in nuclear power, approximately one every 3 weeks,
safety issues with short term, and long-term, storage of spent fuel,
safety hazards of spent fuel reprocessing,
health effects on people and other living things,
nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island,
nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima,
nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima,
near-disaster at San Onofre,
the looming disaster at St. Lucie,
the inherently unsafe characteristics of nuclear power plants required government shielding from liability, or subsidy, for the costs of a nuclear accident via the Price-Anderson Act, and
the serious public impacts of large-scale population evacuation and relocation after a major incident, or “extraordinary nuclear occurrence” in the language used by the Price-Anderson Act. Additional articles will include
the future of nuclear fusion,
future of thorium reactors,
future of high-temperature gas nuclear reactors, and
a concluding chapter with a world-wide economic analysis of nuclear reactors and why countries build them. Links to each article in TANP series are included at the end of this article. http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/the-truth-about-nuclear-power-part-28.html

1.This Month

Reluctantly, I have realised that the climate crisis is the most huge and urgent problem for humanity, now. This website is not able to do justice to this enormous topic. All that I can do is to pick out significant information as it arrives, and also note some, (not nearly enough) of the climate events happening.

Meanwhile, nuclear-news will focus on its original purpose, to reveal the disastrous effects of the nuclear industry, and to refute the propaganda lies from the nuclear lobby.

Existential Abrupt Climate Change Risks to Humanity: Part 1 of 3

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Hibakusha Appeal to End Nukes Now!

THE HUMAN EFFECTS OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY – theme for June 2019.

Before we enter “a new nuclear age” – learn from the newly declassified Chernobyl health records

April 7, 2019

Fortunately, Chernobyl health records are now available to the public. They show that people living in the radioactive traces fell ill from cancers, respiratory illness, anaemia, auto-immune disorders, birth defects, and fertility problems two to three times more frequently in the years after the accident than before. In a highly contaminated Belarusian town of Veprin, just six of 70 children in 1990 were characterised as “healthy”. The rest had one chronic disease or another. On average, the Veprin children had in their bodies 8,498 bq/kg of radioactive caesium (20 bq/kg is considered safe).

For decades, researchers have puzzled over strange clusters of thyroid cancer, leukaemia and birth defects among people living in Cumbria, which, like southern Belarus, is an overlooked hotspot of radioactivity from cold war decades of nuclear bomb production and nuclear power accidents.

Currently, policymakers are advocating a massive expansion of nuclear power as a way to combat climate change. Before we enter a new nuclear age, the declassified Chernobyl health records raise questions that have been left unanswered about the impact of chronic low doses of radioactivity on human health.

Chernobyl’s disastrous cover-up is a warning for the next nuclear age

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/04/chernobyl-nuclear-power-climate-change-health-radioactivity, Kate Brown , 5 Apr 19, Before expanding nuclear power to combat climate change, we need answers to the global health effects of radioactivity

Igor: Child Of Chernobyl (Medical Documentary) – Real Stories

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Fukushima Will Leak Forever Day after Day after Day 5-28-2019

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U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed, Citing “Psychological Torture”

Food, Glorious Food. Never Before Has Earth Needed More: Part 1 of 2

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