re: #252 Thanos

One of the common mistakes that people make when doing this research is to leave out the refueling cycles - please make sure that you research that as well. (e.g. a nuke plant looks like a bad deal next to a coal or oil plant based on construction costs until you look at total uptime and total cost of the lifetime of fuel.)

I’ve been living in the most nuclear-powered country of the world for more than thirty years. And in all that time, no one has been able to precisely state the total start-to-finish cost of a nuclear-generated kilowatt hour. And if anyone really knows, he/she isn’t telling, since the best estimates are astronomic. Meaning way, way higher than Areva (the latest incarnation in the endless shell-game of the French nuclear monopoly) would have people believe.

With so much obfuscation and outright lying by the world’s premier nuclear energy provider, how can one be expected to have any confidence at all in this technology?