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Though I can't see why a land based nuclear plant couldn't be set up to make the fuel as well without the all the cons of solar power. Sure, we will put more energy in then we get out, but it would not require all of our vehicles to be made electric so we could make use of the nuclear plant more directly.</div>

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Let me tackle this nuclear myth right now.<br><br>

Nuclear power is very expensive. There is currently no solution to nuclear waste. And if you deal with the whole process, it cost more to deal with nuclear then it produces.<br><br>

Nuclear power requires capital to build, capital to maintain, and capital to decommission.<br><br>

Lets look at the numbers.<br><br>

To actually run a current nuclear power plant is between 9 and 14 cents per kilowatt. The market value for that energy is about 6 cents per kilowatt.<br><br>

So the government has to had over a subsidy every where year to cover the different between the cost to run the reactor and the market value. Which means, all total, the government hands out about 58 billion dollars to nuclear companies just to keep them running.<br><br>

But the problem with nuclear does not stop there.<br><br>

After the plant runs its life, the company that ran it take the profits to other holdings and declares bankruptcy. The federal government then must come in and decommission the plant. If you force the nuclear companies to actually do this, the cost per kilowatt would go up to almost 1.30 cents a kilowatt, remember the market value is 6 cents per kilowatt.<br><br>

When you add all the little things that is either funded by or taken care of by the tax paper, the total cost of nuclear power is 30 cents to 4 dollars a kilowatt. Depending on the company.<br><br>

And that does not even address the biggest problem with nuclear power.<br><br>

The waste that is produce by the nuclear power is just being stored because the cost of dealing with it would make even the federal government cringe. Which is why we started to store it in a mountain then dealing with it. In places like the uk, where they process the waste, the cost for nuclear is increased by 4 to 7 cents a kilowatt.<br><br>

Now I don't know your "cons" of solar panels, but I have yet to see one produce a nuclear meltdown or leave waste in the ground for thousands of year.<br><br><br>

<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear_subsidies_report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear_subsidies_report.pdf</a>