Monday, April 21, 2014

"Nuclear Power: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive" -- Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman



TOO CHEAP TO METER PROMISE IS FALSE AND MISLEADING




Pro nuclear power apologists put forward the claim that nuclear power is inexpensive. "In the dawn of the nuclear era, cost was expected to be one of the technology's advantages, not one of its drawbacks. The first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, predicted in a 1954 speech that nuclear power would someday make electricity “too cheap to meter.”

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