Kodėl džiaugiasi japonai

Planuojama statyti Ignalinos elektrinė rusų raketos smūgio neatlaikys. Arabų teroristų antpuolio prieš Europos Sąjungą taip pat neatlaikys.

Japonai neveltui ploja ir trispalvėmis mojuoja. Jie nenori statyti elektrinių Japonijoje net toliau nuo jūros. O mums jie pastatys. Mums reikės sumokėti didžiulius pinigus už šią pavojingą ir pasenusią technologiją (1). Tai yra pagrindinis trispalvėmis mojuojančių japonų džiaugsmo šaltinis.

1._A study by Mark Cooper, an economic analyst at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, found that in constant dollars the cost of nuclear power roughly quintupled between the 1970s and the early 1990s...That is only part of the problem. Last August, when the head of America’s largest nuclear utility said that this was not the time to build new nuclear plants, the main reason he gave was not political opposition or the threat of cost overruns, but the low price of natural gas. “Shale [gas]”, said John Rowe, head of Exelon, “is good for the country, bad for new nuclear development.” The Energy Information Administration, a statistics agency, forecasts that shale-gas production will nearly triple by 2035, keeping its production cost at a stable and economical $5 or so per thousand cubic feet until the end of 2023. Nuclear power, after all, needs to compete against other energy sources. (The 30-year itch. America’s nuclear industry struggles to get off the floor._
Feb 18th 2012 | ATLANTA | from the print edition)