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The size/scope of the disaster is far more than how many died initially.

It is the largest ongoing disaster site in the world.
The land, water and environment are a disaster now, and billions will barely contain let alone re-mediate.

You know they are bagging the soil and water there, and where do they put the contamination?
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This has nothing to do with the technology being safe or not, if you fall off a roof installing solar you where not teathered properly. This headline is very misleading.

No, a tether is - albeit rudementery - a technology too! It is the whole package mining, fabricating, installing, using and disposing. Chernobyl also happened due to human error, just like your tether example.
 
The Stipulation for the SPS wind project was posted today. The nuclear fuel company URENCO that had previously opposed the project agreed to the terms of the stipulation. One of the sticking points was capping the capital cost of the project to ~2.5% higher than the bid cost... LOL... if they applied the same standard to nuclear no one would ever attempt to build. Less than double the original estimate would be a win in most cases. Vogtle is looking at a ~300% increase! Too bad you can't sell hypocrisy... that would solve the financial woes of the nuclear industry for sure.

The amount of wind being added to the mid-west is staggering. SPP is the grid market that spans from North Dakota to New Mexico. They currently have ~14GW of wind with plan to more than double that over the next ~3 year. There are plans to increase the resilience of the grid to accommodate up to 75% wind generation they currently rarely peak above ~50%. The cost is equally amazing. The wind farm SPS is building will be 1GW at a cost of $1.68/w with a CF of 50%. The LCOE will be ~$18/MWh! I don't think there's a nuclear plant in the world with O&M costs <$20/MWh and it's been ~30 years since we saw nuclear capital costs <$50/MWh.
 
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The wind farm SPS is building will be 1GW at a cost of $1.68/w with a CF of 50%.
I thought 40% CF was outstanding for wind.
Even if the CF is optimistic, the overall LCOE is going to be fantastic. I'm looking forward to watching coal and nuclear already online collapse. And yet ...

NM AG, others sign on to Xcel wind farm

point out that loss of the wind PTC may yet scuttle the deal. Trump and his army of despicables may yet prevail.
 
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The last remaining US nuclear project may not live to see 2018.

The Georgia PSC is set to make a decision on the project by December 21st moved up from February. The rumor is that due to tax policy changes Georgia Power can save $150M if the project is canceled in 2017. Hopefully some of those savings are paid as severances to the workers about to become unemployed right before Christmas.

US light water reactor construction;
September 1954 - December 2017
Hmmm, maybe it also had something to do with a little election in Alabama recently.;)
 
May never recover? Really?

I suggest that you peruse this page --> Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties - Wikipedia

In a nutshell, though, the mass evacuation after the meltdown caused far more harm than the radiation release. By way of comparison, "The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people from effects unrelated to destruction of the reactors at Fukushima." In this context Fukushima was a big nothing.

Oh, and it also should be noted that the Fukushima plant was an outdated design at the very tail end of its service life before being retired, so it's not a good point of comparison to the safety of building new reactors.

Japan Fukushima nuclear plant 'clean-up costs double' - BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38131248
Nov 28, 2016 - Japan's government estimates the cost of cleaning up radioactive contamination and compensating victims of the 2011Fukushima nuclear disaster has more than doubled, reports say. The latestestimate from the trade ministry put the expected cost at some 20 trillion yen ($180bn, £142bn).

Seems the clean up alone more than doubles, probably triples the cost of all Japan Nukes.
Electricity will no doubt be real cheap now, right? How much and how long to build a new one? Let us know.
 
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