Compared to renewable energy, creating electricity by splitting atoms is simply uneconomical in today’s energy market. Honestly, using atomic power to generate electricity never was economical! Factoring in external costs, like storing the nuclear power and atomic bomb waste for 250,000 years and attempting to corral and clean up migrating radioactive isotopes, proves how impossible it ever was to produce electricity via nuclear power. So rather than being “too cheap to meter” as the industry marketed itself and the 20th-century solution to affordable energy around the world, electricity generated by atoms was and always will be a marketing ploy to assuage the sin of building atomic bombs.
Please join us as we delve into a new series entitled Meltdowns and Shakedowns: Our Nuclear Legacy. During this series, we will examine the financial failures of atomic power plants and other nuclear projects coupled with the actual health risks the nuke industries and government regulators force Americans to live with every day. These additional risks include leaking atomic test sites, laboratories, fuel manufacturing facilities, and uranium mines. Furthermore, recent federal indictments prove how utility executives use marketing ploys and employment bait to grab atomic power subsidies by threatening poor, black, Hispanic, and indigenous communities with plant closures. This use of marketing ploys and employment bait to relax regulations and increase graft is radioactive racism.
