Look up production tax credits that nuclear power gets--1.8 cents per kwh. It equalizes nuclear power with all of the solar and wind subsidies--it's a wash. Level playing field.
Except for the fact that nuclear industry has loan guarantees--8.3 billion this year, 36 billion next year, because in the past the defaults on loans taken out by utilities who went nuclear approached 50 percent and no banker in their right mind will make a loan to build a nuclear power plant without the federal loan guarantee. No longer a level playing field.
And except for the liability limits of Price Anderson that keeps the nuclear industry liability below their pooled insurance fund you mentioned. Is an accident likely to exceed the self insurance amount? Reuter's puts the expense of Three Mile Island at around 56 billion in today's dollars:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/06/11/bps-crisis-is-no-three-mile-island/What happened to that level playing field? Looks like a slippery slope to me, and we taxpayers are at the bottom of the hill. You don't need to read a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists to figure out that you better be holding onto your wallet when someone starts to talk about nuclear power.
