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by Manuel_D 895 days ago
> I looked up the cost, nuclear waste costs massively eclipse all other energy subsidies

It's be really good if you shared how you arrived at this conclusion. Because renewables have received $11 billion in subsidies in 2016 alone [1]. By comparison, nuclear waste management is already factored into the up-front costs of nuclear power plants [2]. Deep dig nuclear waste repositories like Onkalo cost less than a billion euros to store decades worth of nuclear waste [3].

I'm very, very interested how you reached the conclusion that the cost of storing nuclear waste "massively eclipse" all other energy subsidies. You are very likely mistaking the cost of managing waste from nuclear weapons production [4], which is distinct from nuclear power generation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...

2. https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedfiles/org/info/pdf/eco...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

4. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106081#:~:text=Fast%20Fa....