Talk:Economics of nuclear power plants

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Expert needed[edit]

There has been much poorly sourced, or unsourced material (see 12 May 2016), recently added to the article, which has made it a real "hotch potch" of poorly structured (and often outdated or undated) ideas and views. An experienced editor in energy economics, using reliable and scholarly sources, could help. Johnfos (talk) 01:03, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Regarding comparison of economics of power sources, cost (including subsidy) is the relevant parameter, not price which includes arbitrary taxes for government consumption. TGCP (talk) 22:45, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Lead exposing the real deal[edit]

The economics of new nuclear power plants is a controversial subject, since there are diverging views on this topic (particularly around risk externalities involving disaster, cleanup, proliferation, disposal and resource conflict), and multibillion-dollar investments ride on the choice of an energy source. Many of the externalities are black swans and thus hard to price in conventional economic models, whereas the operational economics are well understood.

My latest edit in bold. My own view on nuclear is show me the fuel cycle, and let's do the math (with all externalities present and accounted for, in so far as one can). I guess that makes me a techno-optimist with a skeptical bent. In my opinion, the proper way to balance what I've added is to make a comment to the effect that the first/second generation was developed against the backdrop of the Cold War (very different social priorities) and a lot has changed in our technological capabilities since the 1950s (witness the air-mile fatality plunge in commercial aviation over the same period). But for that, one would need a proper cite. Freeman Dyson has written revealingly about the priority inversion of small and hot over large and safe stemming from the first nuclear submarines, and the toe hold this created within the civilian space (probably a chapter of In Praise of Diversity, but a that's a long time ago for my aging mind). I feel the risk externality issue needs to be front and center in the first paragraph, because the rest of the article will naturally be biased toward the kinds of things one can state with certainty (i.e, a detailed litany of well-understood operational economics). On the other side, Nassim Taleb and Cathy O'Neil have both argued against excessive reliance on models in domains where models are incapable of capturing or assessing the true exogenous risk. — MaxEnt 16:50, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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