http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmu.de%2Ffiles%2Fpdfs%2Fallgemein%2Fapplication%2Fpdf%2Fhintergrund_atomco2.pdf&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=

(table 5) says he is wrong. Why should we believe your man? What is a
CPA, and why does it make him qualified?

-W.

2009/1/5 Jim Torson <[email protected]>:
>
> Posted on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog...
> http://climateprogress.org/2009/01/05/study-cost-risks-new-nuclear-power-plants/
>
> Exclusive analysis, Part 1: The staggering cost of new nuclear power
>
> A new study puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at
> from 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour — triple current U.S. electricity
> rates!
>
> This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of
> carbon-free renewable power sources available today — and ten times the cost
> of energy efficiency (see "Is 450 ppm possible? Part 5: Old coal's out,
> can't wait for new nukes, so what do we do NOW?").
>
> The new study, Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power, is one of the
> most detailed cost analyses publically available on the current generation
> of nuclear power plants being considered in this country. It is by a leading
> expert in power plant costs, Craig A. Severance. A practicing CPA, Severance
> is co-author of The Economics of Nuclear and Coal Power (Praeger 1976), and
> former Assistant to the Chairman and to Commerce Counsel, Iowa State
> Commerce Commission.
>
> <snip - see website for complete article>
>
> >
>



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