Nuclear Industry Buries Self

Here’s a good article on the nuclear industry, suggesting that 2012 should be the year that we finally “bury it.”

Though I love the guy’s writing, I’m not sure we need the dramatics here. Nuclear is fantastically expensive – more so all the time – and thus I believe it’s buried itself. By the time a nuclear plant could be planned, permitted, built, and put online, a minimum of 8 – 10 years, the costs will be even higher than they are today, and the price of competitive solutions, i.e., renewables, will have fallen. Never mind the danger and the public outcry; no one, not even the fabulously moneyed and powerful nuclear industry, can sell a solution that is fantastically expensive.

So long.