Ch 24 Page 175: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

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The nuclear decommissioning authority has an annual budget of £2 billion. In fact, this clean-up budget seems to rise

and rise. The latest figure for the total cost of decommissioning is £73 billion. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7215688.stm
- Casaba on 2009-08-21
  
  Now why is this nearly 50% increase over the value quoted in the text tucked into the endnotes? If the text were emphasizing how great a cost this was, the end notes might be appropriate. However, the text main point is that it is a smaller 'subsidy' than that given wind generation.
- Djcmackay on 2009-08-24
  
  I added an erratum to the book trying to improve the accuracy of my discussion of the cost of nuclear decommissioning: my error was that I attributed the nuclear decomm. cost to civilian electricity generation, but in fact the lion's share of the clean-up cost is for military mess. C.Duro then posted a comment disputing this fact and accusing me of dishonest presentation. I stand by the fact: I got this same erratum twice from two independent sources, then checked it, and I don't think that the Telegraph article cited by C.Duro disproves the erratum. The lion's share (ie more than half) of the cost is for military clean-up.

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Ché Duro on 2009-08-14

Now why is this nearly 50% increase over the value quoted in the text tucked into the endnotes? If the text were emphasizing how great a cost this was, the end notes might be appropriate. However, the text main point is that it is a smaller 'subsidy' than that given wind generation.

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