Wats the cost to collect and refine nuclear power source (uranium)?
cost to transport
cost of equipment to convert into electricy
price to consumers?
2007-06-02 19:06:31 · 5 answers · asked by khanh_kangaroo 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Sounds like a fun research project. Why don't you get on the web and research it?
2007-06-02 19:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cost of nuclear power is much greater than you will find through many searches. Pro-nuclear power people leave out two main high-cost factors.
The government provides insurance since no private insurer would do it for any reasonable cost.
The disposal and storage problem will not be solved because the waste is dangerous for thousands of years. How can you possibly warn people in the future about the storage site? You would have a difficult time understanding English from 1,000 years ago accurately. Any other symbolic warning would need to be unambiguous.
2007-06-02 21:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by smartprimate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is actually free. Well is Tax Funded, money that gummits cannot spend is used or can be used on Nuclear Power Plants. Would stop a few rich peoples from polluting the world more with Coal Fired plants, and getting richer, but it would slow Global Warming down a tad and lawd knows we have lotsa that junk in Yucca Mountain just rusting away with a half life of three centuries.
2007-06-02 19:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Once the power plant is built the marginal cost of the electricity is less than 2 cents (US) per kilowatt hour. That, of course, sums up the total cost of fuel, labor, operation, and disposal of waste.
2007-06-02 19:14:27 · answer #4 · answered by DT3238 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ask those poor bastards in and around Prypiat, Ukraine what the cost is. I would bet they would have a very different answer and it would not contain any math.
2007-06-02 19:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋