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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
There is no money in cleaning up after you have made your profit.
What i think will be very interesting with nuclear power is how the "utilities" that own them and make money "now" will behave when they have to be decommissioned. Even if there is no accident along the way, the costs of dealing with radioctive waste wont be cheap, and i'll bet some operators will declare bankruptcy and/or run for the hills, just like happened with asbestos when the true costs came out.
Andrew
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Good point. I always thought a mass accelerator was the way to go with nuclear waste. I mean, launch it at high velocity straight at sol... not even a burp.... Start up costs would be a beach though.