tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post5130081524675370189..comments2023-05-17T04:01:26.506-04:00Comments on The Neutron Economy: Spent nuclear fuel disposal is not a "subsidy"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12086026121605548134noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post-76827525983827313392012-12-28T08:04:16.490-05:002012-12-28T08:04:16.490-05:00Nice and informative Blog regarding Finance Assign...Nice and informative Blog regarding <a href="http://www.assignmentsweb.com/Finance_Assignment_Help.html" rel="nofollow">Finance Assignment Help</a> this is really helpful for people who interested in Online Education. Thanks and Keep Continue to share useful information with us.assignments webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610185021950231732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post-54764090759921212112012-12-15T21:54:42.174-05:002012-12-15T21:54:42.174-05:00Maybe this is far afield, many advised Arthur C. C...Maybe this is far afield, many advised Arthur C. Clarke that he should patent his concept of communications satellites long before Sputnik when he first figured out what geosync orbits were best, how satcoms should operate, and how best stage them there. He modestly declined even though many felt he had a legal case for shared telecom royalties at least. One could say nuclear reactors — the first in the world — are the U.S. government’s babies by din of WWII, whom by this creative default ought automatically have a major responsibility in the progress of the technology and the issues of waste and recycling. This puts nuclear energy, unlike coal or oil or gas, in a position unique in energy sources in having a defacto certified parent of sorts as it were who ought have a major say in minding the offshoots and side-effects of its technology in the commercial and research realms at least in the U.S. This concept might raise interesting issues; is a subsidy to nuclear power generation or waste disposal more grant than welfare?<br /><br />James Greenidge<br />Queens N Y<br />jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624023124404414596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post-45892156160700486392012-12-15T20:39:26.167-05:002012-12-15T20:39:26.167-05:00You fail to mention how much that $22B would be to...You fail to mention how much that $22B would be today had it been invested in an interest bareing account and audited like the decommissioning funds are required to be. Would $40 - 50 Billion be a safe guess? The site is suposed to be safe for 100's to 1000's of years and designed as such. Meanwhile the funds are accumulating and if/wnen a better method of storage comes up there will be more than sufficient funds to pay for it - even enough to find a new site or put it on a rocket to the Sun.Uzurbrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08658548621821661590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post-13919253701467581232012-12-14T14:59:13.027-05:002012-12-14T14:59:13.027-05:00Good comments; I necessarily constrained mine to t...Good comments; I necessarily constrained mine to the issue of spent fuel, namely because it seemed the most egregious, and frankly I just can't afford to spend all day arguing on the internet. That being said, you bring up some excellent points.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12086026121605548134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236895917331192509.post-60053199679852723202012-12-14T14:21:04.144-05:002012-12-14T14:21:04.144-05:00I also left a response:
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You miss some of th...I also left a response:<br /><br />=====<br />You miss some of the key supports for renewables. One such is priority grid access: the electricity grid operator is often compelled to take renewable power, even when there is a net cost to the grid of cycling fast-response sources. This leads to another couple of subsidies: the grid needs to be considerably more complex to support this actoin and the recent assessment of the German Energy Agency detailed some significant costs for this - not needed unless that additional level of irregular renewable power was being used. The other implicit cost is the backup power, being used less efficiently because it is being moved in response, and (at high wind/solar penetration) being overbuilt and underused to account for very low periods of renewable production.<br /><br />You go fishing to say something bad about nuclear power, looking for very indirect or non-existent subsidies, and make some basic mistakes, led astray by the partial vision of UCS and others.<br /><br />Nuclear waste - spent fuel - is collected and safely stored. The Federal government has collected a great deal of money, collected as part of the price of electricity, to undertake its self-appointed task of disposal of this waste product. Far from being a subsidy, this is a shining example of responsible accounting and control of waste products.<br /><br />Nuclear insurance law is not a subsidy, but a trade. Do I subsidize a car dealer when I give him money? Of course not. So it is with Price-Anderson, but you will never hear of the other side of the bargain from anti-nuclear sources. The Act allows for an accelerated compension for people affected by nuclear incidents, without them needing to demonstrate fault on the operators side. And frankly the insurance levels covered are huge; according to the NRC's assessment of current defenses (SOARCA), an accident simply wouldn't have the serious external effects once feared.<br /><br />Loan guarantees are not a susidy if the appropriate fee is charged for that guarantee. Nuclear power pays that fee; solar and wind do not.<br />=====Joffanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025437863119781181noreply@blogger.com