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Why Is the Nuclear Power Industry in Trouble?



Frontline: Irrational public fears have strangled a clean

source of limitless electricity.



Response: Nuclear power has been done in by its inability to compete economically with other sources of electricity---a situation that will become even more apparent in the United States as the electricity market is deregulated. Plutonium fuels are even less competitive---MOX fuel costs about four to eight times more than standard, low-enriched uranium fuel. Reprocessing, far from solving the waste problem, creates much more waste than that contained in spent fuel (including the reprocessing plant itself and all waste it produces), and puts nuclear waste into a less manageable form than spent fuel.

The producers of "Nuclear Reaction" ignored or distorted the most significant problems of nuclear power and plutonium recycle--- safety hazards, proliferation risks, and an inability to compete economically despite billions of dollars in federal subsidies. These problems disprove their main thesis that irrational fear is what threatens nuclear power in the United States. Public fear and rejection of nuclear power are not only rational but sensible.
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