Why Is Nuclear Power So Expensive?
July 20, 2008 by Cato
Filed under Energy, Liberalism, Maryland, Maryland Politics
O’Malley Watch notes that MaryPIRG is opposing the construction of another reactor at Calvert Cliffs. Their reason? Nuclear power is too expensive.
A big reason that nuclear plant is so expensive is because of leftist groups like MaryPIRG fight the permitting process and keep demanding changes until the utility constructing the plant either gives up or has their costs driven way up.
Of course these same socialist-inspired groups then turn around and claim that the utility shouldn’t be allowed to charge for their high costs of construction. That’s right guys. We’ll eat cake while we’re freezing in our own homes.
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The sad truth is that safe nuclear power is the cheapest and most dependable form of energy without the excess red tape.
We seriously need to stream line the process of getting nuclear powerplants up and running. The AP1000 is not your grand dad’s reactor. There are also a lot of designs that could allow for quick deployment of reactors, like the IRIS project that projects medium sized reactors that are far safer and most components can be manufactured off site and simply installed, due out by 2015. The Japanese are able to get full scale reactors up and running under budget and ahead of schedule. We will eventually be using French and Japanese technology and Areva will be reprocessing all our spent fuel. The Japanese and French have both been experimenting with Molten Salt reactors, invented at ORNL and sold back to us from over seas. This is our fault, not the liberals or the conservatives. It is time to blame the people in the mirror rather than stupidly blaming “the other side.”
Don’t be too confused, but I am far left of center, and rabidly pro-nuclear. This isn’t inconsistent, I think you need to expand your thinking a bit.