Think about how absurd this decision is, the nuclear plant in question came online in 1972 and 1973, the permits would have allowed it operate for another 50 years or until 2072 or 2073, so this nuclear power plant could have operated for 100 years.
How many windmills and solar panels would it take to produce the same amount of power this nuclear plant would produce over 100 years in operation ??
Throw in the cost of the nuclear plant operating for 100 years versus the cost of windmills and solar panels for 100 years and I would be willing to guess the nuclear plant comes out far cheaper for the 100 years.
it still can operate if the leftist totalitarian is ignored.
Throw in the cost of the nuclear plant operating for 100 years versus the cost of windmills and solar panels for 100 years and I would be willing to guess the nuclear plant comes out far cheaper for the 100 years.
***I’m okay with that, as long as you include the cost of waste disposal, including accident sites such as 3mileIsland. For those windmills and solar panels, you only need to account for about 50 years of waste disposal before it’s safe to build houses on top of the landfill. For nuke power, you’d have to wait 10,000 years or more. There is right now no currently accepted and approved path for storing nuclear waste permanently in the USA. Once that solution is generated [probably gonna be Yucca Mountain, probably gonna be 5x costlier than was proposed], the overall cost of fission power will be less competitive than squirrels on treadmills.