Energy Alternatives CDAE-06 February 2, 2004 Gary Flomenhoft
Nine circles
"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy...electrical energy too cheap to meter." Lewis Strauss, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission — 1954
Nuclear song? Joni Crosby Nat
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E=MC 2
URANIUM
China Energy use 1997
Japan Energy 1995
Nuclear Future?
Direct subsidies: Nuclear R&D
Indirect Subsidies: PRICE- ANDERSON ACT $200 million insurance for each plant >$200 million: 103 nuclear reactor operators in America must pay up to $88 million per reactor = $9.3 billion total per accident 1982 Sandia National Lab study estimated damages up to $560 billion in 2000 dollars. Chernobyl cost the nations of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus $358 billion. Does not include costs to other nations from fallout. $9.3 billion < 2% of the $560 billion in potential costs