{"id":195963,"date":"2008-06-02T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/the-real-problem-with-nuclear-power-too-damn-expensive\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:01:00","slug":"the-real-problem-with-nuclear-power-too-damn-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/the-real-problem-with-nuclear-power-too-damn-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Problem with Nuclear Power: Too Damn Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependent.com\/view\/nuclear-energy-an\">fact<\/a> comes as no surprise to me.  I work in nuclear power, on end of life and spent fuel issues, and this is something that costs <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">a lot of money<\/span>, and is rarely even quoted in the price of a plant.<\/p>\n<p>So, even without considering that US plants inevitable delays and cost overruns (the French have their act together better), nuclear power is not economically viable without massive government subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fact comes as no surprise to me. I work in nuclear power, on end of life and spent fuel issues, and this is something that costs a lot of money, and is rarely even quoted in the price of a plant. So, even without considering that US plants inevitable delays and cost overruns (the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}