Automated Translation of the french article (machines suck!) by Sortir Du Nucleaire – March 3rd, 2009 – EDF lost 9% on the Paris stock market yesterday, and has lost over 70% in the last few months; – Areva lost more … Continue reading
Category Archives: Econ
 By Harvey Wasserman   The desperate, dangerous nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion stealth bomb meant to irradiate the Obama Stimulus Package.  It comes in the form of a mega-loan guarantee package that would build new reactors … Continue reading
 CommonDreams.org Loan guarantees sought by nuclear industry for reactor construction amount to ‘preemptive bailout,’ with expected default rate of 50 percent or higher. WASHINGTON – September 29 – A new ad from Friends of the Earth accuses nuclear industry lobbyists … Continue reading
Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes! By Karl Grossman With Wall Street unwilling to finance new nuclear plants, U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Warner of Virginia have cooked up a scheme to provide $544 billion -Â yes, with a … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman: Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl–in Advance! Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl … in Advance! By HARVEY WASSERMAN Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls—in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power … Continue reading
Study: Yankee can’t afford shutdown: Rutland Herald Online VERNON — If Vermont Yankee nuclear plant shut down today, or even in 2012 when its federal license expires, there would not be enough money in its decommissioning fund to pay … Continue reading
by Richard Lance Christie (Revised 02 Nov 07)  Free Market v. Subsidized Nuclear Power Economics:  “In a market economy, private investors are the ultimate arbiter of what energy technologies can compete and yield reliable profits, so to understand … Continue reading
Oxford Research Group – Briefing papers – Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power Frank Barnaby and James Kemp, with a foreword by David Howarth MP, July … Continue reading
Costs Surge for Building Power Plants – New York Times Costs Surge for Building Power Plants James Hill for The New York Times Soaring prices for materials like this nickel mined in Norilsk, Russia, have helped drive up construction costs … Continue reading
New Reactor Costs Daunt U.S. Utilities as TVA Restarts Old Unit Bloomberg.com: U.S. New Reactor Costs Daunt U.S. Utilities as TVA Restarts Old Unit By Elliot Blair Smith Enlarge Image TVA’s nuclear reactor at Browns Ferry, Alabama July 9 (Bloomberg) … Continue reading
Foreign Policy: Why Nuclear Energy Isn’t the Great Green Hope As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal … Continue reading
San Jose Mercury News – Nuclear-power dilemma: It’s carbon-free, but comes with big questions Nuclear-power dilemma: It’s carbon-free, but comes with big questions By Sarah Jane Tribble Mercury News Article Launched: 06/10/2007 DIABLO CANYON – The nuclear power plant nestled … Continue reading
Comment is free: Nuclear’s hidden subsidies Nuclear’s hidden subsidies The government’s vision for the future of nuclear energy is much the same as its past: It expects the public to foot the bill. David Lowry May 23, 2007 10:30 PM … Continue reading
Political Affairs Magazine – Global warming, nuclear power: double trouble Global warming, nuclear power: double trouble By Peter Mac Environment 5-11-07, 1:40 pm As a twelve year old I visited a new engineering exhibition which included a model of … Continue reading
Risky Business: The Outlook for Investing in Nuclear Power Risky Business: The Outlook for Investing in Nuclear Power by Anne Moore Odell A new report scrutinizes the nuclear industry from an investor’s perspective and finds a rotting fantasy of cheap … Continue reading
Nuclear Is Not the Way Nuclear Is Not the Way by Brice Smith and Arjun Makhijani Related Articles Nuclear Power Is the Future by Max Schulz Decades after the promise of nuclear energy “too cheap to meter†was swamped in … Continue reading
The Economics of Nuclear Power | Greenpeace USA The Economics of Nuclear Power May 01, 2007 Over the last two decades there has been a steep decline in orders for new nuclear reactors globally. Poor economics has been one of … Continue reading
Connect Savannah Endless power, endless cost The brutal economics of a move to more nuclear energy By Kathleen Graham Two views of Plant Vogtle’s twin cooling towers on the Savannah River Two views of Plant Vogtle’s twin cooling towers on … Continue reading
United Press International – Energy – Analysis Analysis: Report, nuke reality don’t mesh – Energy – Analysis Published: April 23, 2007 at 6:55 PM By BEN LANDO UPI Energy Correspondent WASHINGTON April 23 (UPI) — A new report by the … Continue reading
CCN News http://www.ccnmag.com/news.php?id=4997 Weighing the Financial Risks of Nuclear Power Plants 2007-04-04 01:05:06 Enticed by the gleam of government subsidies, many companies are rushing to invest in nuclear power, expecting that new technology and safer reactors will make them … Continue reading
The Economics of Building a Nuclear Power Plant in Fresno by Alan Cheah and Mark Stout Wednesday Jan 17th, 2007 6:44 PM The Economics of Building a Nuclear Power Plant in Fresno by Alan Cheah and Mark Stout Wednesday Jan … Continue reading
The True Costs of NUCLEAR POWER April/May 2006 The True Costs of NUCLEAR POWER By Mark Hertsgaard Taxpayer subsidies for high-risk nuclear power plants should be redirected to promote alternative energy. By Mark HertsgaardDuring a July 2005 lecture in San … Continue reading