Reply #40: costs [View All]

[AuldLochinvar]

These costs are all computed from the point of view of private investment, where the cost of nuclear fuel doesn't include the cost of disposal.
The US government, on behalf of the taxpayer, has assumed these costs. As long as reprocessing is forbidden, they are infinite.

The existing laws permit coal and methane burning to release gaseous poisons, not including CO2, into the air for no cost.

The real cost of digging 25 thousand tons of uranium are necessarily far less than the millions of thousands of tons of coal dug up for the same energy.