You can make the calculation return any result you want, for example by including cost of millennia of nuclear waste storage in price of nuclear power; another thing - nuclear power gets massive federal insurance subsidies (but then coal gets free license to kill people by pollution etc., so it's not exclusively nuclear problem).
If you know what result you want, you will be able to come up with it.
You can make the calculation return any result you want, for example by including cost of millennia of nuclear waste storage in price of nuclear power;
You can calculate arbitrarily high costs for anything if you try hard enough. What of it? We're not going to deal with nuclear waste by sticking it in Yucca Mountain and guarding it for thousands of years; that would be silly. Here's a summary of how to realistically deal with nuclear waste. We have more than enough money for this budgeted as part of every nuclear plant's operating and maintenance fees.
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