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"..executive with the utility company Florida Power & Light told me that his company had adopted nuclear power so that its leaders wouldn’t be embarrassed on the golf course by other C.E.O.s who had done so" @insideFPL #Florida #sealevel
.. world should expect one full or partial meltdown every six to seven years.. worldwide nuclear program is slightly overdue for its next big surprise.

A 2016 study concluded the “overall probability” of a meltdown in the next decade was almost 70%
the death certificate for the U.S. nuclear industry can be dated precisely to the summer of 1974. U.S. interest rates were approaching the double digits, and utility companies, en masse, stopped ordering nuclear units;
cancelled their outstanding contracts for new ones; and even scrapped nuclear-construction projects that were already well under way. This entailed LOSSES OF HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars for the utilities & led to a cascade of unprecedented DEFAULTS in the nuclear industry
👆Is this factored in in the cost of #Nuclear power? Don't think so!
Add cost of previous accidents & ones to come #CostingTheEarth
Decades’ worth of evidence testifies to the difficulty, expense, and danger of turning swords into plowshares

French nuclear capacity has been effectively cut in half. Due to failures & #RapidGlobalWarming
The fact that French nuclear power has fallen on its face when it is needed most is a hint that it is not the key to world energy security.

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