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It’s the Economics, Stupid : Nuclear Power’s Bogeyman

The Wall Street Journal

May 12, 2008, 1:59 pm

It’s the Economics, Stupid : Nuclear Power’s Bogeyman

Posted by Keith Johnson

It turns out nuclear power’s biggest worry isn’t Yucca Mountain, Three Mile Island ghosts, or environmental protesters. It’s economics.

Costs : You ain’t seen nothing yet. (Associated Press)

Rebecca Smith reports today in the WSJ (sub reqd.) on the biggest hurdle to the nascent nuclear-energy revival in the U.S.—skyrocketing construction costs. Though all (...)