Arjun Makhijani: Nuclear is not the right alternative energy source
Feb. 26
Luminant Energy, formerly TXU, is proposing to build two Mitsubishi nuclear power reactors at its Comanche Peak site, where two reactors are already in place. If you don't like coal, you have to take nuclear, goes the nuclear establishment's hopeful mantra. Wind energy is competitive with or more economical than nuclear energy about 8 cents per kilowatt-hour in good areas. In January, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which is owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, dropped plans to build a nuclear power plant in Idaho, on the grounds that it could not provide reasonably priced energy to its customers. New nuclear plants would add to the country's problem of nuclear waste. For instance, last September, a nuclear unit at Browns Ferry belonging to the Tennessee Valley Authority had to be shut down for lack of water.
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