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Suddenly A Nasty Fight over Subsidies for Nukes in Europe

Testosterone Pit -- France, the UK, Poland, and the Czech Republic, which are all planning or building nuclear power plants, are pressuring the European Union to open up the spigot...

Their goal: get the EU to reclassify nuclear energy as low-emission technology, a heavily subsidized category that includes solar and wind power; it would make nuclear power eligible for the same subsidies. Their argument: Europe's commitment to shift to low-emission power generation by 2050 would have to be “technology neutral.”

If the four countries succeed, the EU could subsidize not only construction of nuclear power plants but also the sale of their electricity to the tune of billions of euros—to be paid by all taxpayers in the EU via the EU budget, 20% of which falls upon German taxpayers. Alas, it’s precisely Germany

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Submitted Apr 14, 2012 By: ccf_jeff

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DanMtz Champion Author Oakland Posts:3,486 Points:1,269,075 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2012 10:01:52 AM Ignore DanMtz Report Abuse Nuclear power plants have to be commercially viable. Why must they be subsidized?
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jrsva Champion Author Virginia Posts:9,993 Points:1,638,975 Joined:Jan 2006	Message Posted: Apr 14, 2012 11:06:49 PM Ignore jrsva Report Abuse “. . . reclassify nuclear energy as low-emission technology . . . .” Well, it is indeed low emission until something goes wrong and then it suddenly becomes ultra-high emission. Then there is the waste material that will be emitting for millennia. I don’t think nukes qualify for special treatment as “low-emission.”
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