Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected 288
Lasrick writes: "This article takes a look at cost estimates of nuclear power plant decommissioning from the 1980s, and how widely inaccurate they turned out to be. This is a pretty fascinating look at past articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that consistently downplayed the costs of decommissioning, for example: 'The Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Rowe, Massachusetts, took 15 years to decommission—or five times longer than was needed to build it. And decommissioning the plant—constructed early in the 1960s for $39 million—cost $608 million. The plant's spent fuel rods are still stored in a facility on-site, because there is no permanent disposal repository to put them in. To monitor them and make sure the material does not fall into the hands of terrorists or spill into the nearby river costs $8 million per year.'"
Re:It's a government contract job. (Score:4, Funny)
Yucca Mountain is full
Ok. Whatever source of information has led you to that belief ...... never go back there. Just don't. They've messed you up and you must get away from them.
Seriously.
In fact there is no waste inside Yucca mountain. Zero.
The only thing we've stored in Yucca mountain is bullshit from Harry Reid and the libtard moonbeamers that run this pathetic romper room country. We keep it there because he is old and when he dies we'll need a continuing supply Harry Reid's bullshit to keep the system running. There is enough bullshit stored in Yucca mountain to keep the system operating for approximately 20 years, during which time we will have to develop a new source of bullshit and transition our system to this new bullshit supply.
Re:Why is this happening? (Score:5, Funny)
I know getting all the books for 5th edition will be expensive but I still can't see D&D costing 640 million dollars-- even with a redone Vault of the Drow module.