[p2p-research] "Nuclear decline set to continue, says report, " by Nuclear Engineering International

[Ryan Lanham]

What you include below surprises me.  I would have predicted the opposite.
One needs to make special note of futurism projections that come out flat
wrong.  In this case, I am certainly so.

Ryan

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> From the news release, "Nuclear decline set to continue, says report<http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectioncode=132&storyCode=2053966>,"
> by Nuclear Engineering International:
>
> Nuclear will continue to decline according to a new report. At this point
> there is no obvious sign that the international nuclear industry could turn
> the decline into a promising future, it says. ...
>
> The report says that there seems to be a “widening gap” between the
> industrial reality with its current trends and the "perception of some sort
> of nuclear renaissance”.
>
> From the report:
>
> The flagship EPR project at Olkiluoto in Finland, managed by the largest
> nuclear builder in the world, AREVA NP, has turned into a financial fiasco.
> The project is more than three years behind schedule and at least 55% over
> budget, reaching a total cost estimate of €5 billion ($7 billion) or close
> to €3,100 ($4,400) per kilowatt.
>
> There are numerous ways by which governments have organized or tolerated
> subsidies to nuclear power. They range from direct or guaranteed government
> loans to publicly funded research and development (R&D). Direct ownership of
> subsidized nuclear fuel chain facilities, government funded nuclear
> decommissioning and waste management, generous limited liability for
> accidents and the transfer of capital costs to ratepayers via stranded cost
> rules or special rate-basing allowances are all common in many countries.
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