"The Future Role of Nuclear Power in the United States
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What should be done under the circumstances?
Let the marketplace work to address the problems we face and price energy at its full societal cost by internalizing the cost of environmental pollution.
Assuming you believe in economic efficiency and a free market, you should be advocating a reduction in subsidies to energy companies for production of electricity by nuclear and fossil-fueled plants. Moreover,
to level the playing field and allow all new innovations to compete, you should be advocating internalizing the environmental costs of these technologies."
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/pnucpwr.aspSince the NRDC believes in "economic efficiency and a free market", no doubt they disapprove of the $7B subsidy to wind energy producers as a production tax credit. The objection to nuclear rests on an MIT study that's 7 years old and outright lies, claiming the NRC "put all its eggs in the proposed Yucca Mountain basket". They're concerned about nuclear waste 10,000 years in the future, yet all life on Earth will be long gone if global warming is not aggressively addressed now. The only realistic scenario includes nuclear power.
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