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Fearing climate change, experts in San Diego warn U.S. nuclear industry faces collapse
The United States is on the verge of losing more than half of its low-carbon energy as the fight against climate change reaches a critical point — a reality the country hasn’t fully grappled with. That’s according to findings recently published by researchers at UC San Diego, Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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There are good reasons nuclear energy is going extinct. Including ALL the costs of mining, enrichment, transportation, building, operating decommissioning and radwaste storage it is by far the most expensive energy source. If the same amount of money and resources had been put into solar and other clean energies and energy storage, as has been wasted on nuclear, we would have more energy than we could use. The Tesla battery storage operations are proving that it could be done on a city/regional level. This propaganda piece by the nuclear industry and their apologists at the San Diego Union Tribune won't change any of those facts.