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Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:20 am
by HowardE
I ve voiced my opinion before. Seeing the reckless behavior of TAPCO at Fukushima reminded me that we (government) should stop subsidizing nuclear power to make it look economically attractive. Let it survive on is own and if it can't let it fade away. No more subsidizing technologies and industries that are killing us.
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:07 am
by KimChin
Subsidizing nuclear is such a myth...
People think that "The bulk of government energy subsidies have gone to nuclear energy." Fact: An exhaustive study of federal energy incentives spanning the past 60 years has been released by Management Information Services Inc., a D.C.-based economic research firm. It shows that the main beneficiaries of more than $800 billion of federal energy incentives over the past six decades have been the oil and natural gas industries, and that nuclear energy and renewable technologies both have received 9 percent of the total inccentives provided by the federal government since 1950. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized $18.5 billion in loan guarantees each for nuclear and renewable energy projects. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 authorized an additional $60 billion in loan guarantee authority and tax credits for renewable and alternative energy supplies with none for nuclear energy.
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:37 pm
by dhimmer
HowardE wrote:I ve voiced my opinion before. Seeing the reckless behavior of TAPCO at Fukushima reminded me that we (government) should stop subsidizing nuclear power to make it look economically attractive. Let it survive on is own and if it can't let it fade away. No more subsidizing technologies and industries that are killing us.
Howard, where are you getting your data from? How many people has the nuclear industry killed in the USA, let's say in the last 10 years and how many have other types of electricity generating industries have killed (all components of the industries, from the very first step to the delivery of electricity)?
I'd like to see the numbers that support your conclusions! I think that if what you say was true, at least in the USA, people would support Nuclear Power, like they do.
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:21 pm
by HowardE
dhimmer wrote:I'd like to see the numbers that support your conclusions! I think that if what you say was true, at least in the USA, people would support Nuclear Power, like they do.
Are you serious? USA public supports Nuclear? Whatever it is you are smoking, you should cut down
USA public is against nuclear probably more that the public in any other country!
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 4:10 pm
by dhimmer
Howard, you may want to attribute to smoking something, but I am not making this up! Here is a gallup poll taken in 2012 *AFTER* the Fukushima accident. Americans support Nuclear Power!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153452/Ameri ... shima.aspx
There are other sources, with similar results, if you don't like the gallup poll.
However, you forgot to answer my other, more important question, so I'll ask it again.
dhimmer wrote:Howard, where are you getting your data from? How many people has the nuclear industry killed in the USA, let's say in the last 10 years and how many have other types of electricity generating industries have killed (all components of the industries, from the very first step to the delivery of electricity)?
Can you please answer? You may have a point there, and I'd like to see the information/data you base it on.
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:21 pm
by HowardE
I am not so sure I buy the gallop results. But, if you want to believe them, go right ahead.
Answer what? There have been dozens of studies that estimate tens of thousands of deaths because of Fukushima and hundreds of thousands because of Chernobyl. Just search on-line. If I could find them, so can you. I don't think any other power source can cause that magnitude of damage.
Re: Stop subsidizing nuclear!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:36 am
by GradPhys
Dhimmer, here are the numbers you are looking for, since HowardE didn't have them handy
They are widely available, just do a google search... Hope they help in understanding the relative risks.
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Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh) OLD
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Coal - world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Coal - China 278
Coal - USA 15
Oil 36 (36% of world energy)
Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy)
Biofuel/Biomass 12
Peat 12
Solar (rooftop) 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)
Wind 0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)
Hydro 0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)
Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)