The Future of Nuclear Power.
An Interdisciplinary MIT Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Identifies numerous economic and technical problems with the energy source, but concludes governments should invest anyway.
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Here Today, There Tomorrow: Commercial Nuclear Reactor Sites as Terrorist Targets.
Nuclear Energy Information Service. Overview of concerns over vulnerability of plants and spent fuel pools at commercial reactors.
The Implications of September 11th for the Nuclear Industry.
John H. Large and Myele Schneider. Oxford Research Group. Reviews risk scenarios for nuclear plants in various countries and concludes risks there are important gaps in the security profile of the plants.
Policies to Give Renewable Energy a Fair Position in the Electricity Markets.
Thomas Kåberger, presentation at the First Asia Pacific Green Power Conference, Tokyo. Spending government money on research and development has helped develop technologies for utilization of renewable energy. Systems of subsidies have made it possible to have the technologies demonstrated.
DTI-Managed Liabilities.
Department Trade and Industry. Brief overview of residual liabilities arising from the coal and nuclear industries’ past activities.
Liabilities – Labour’s Hidden Subsidy To Nuclear Power.
Friends of the Earth, U.K. Briefing provides an overview of British privatization of nuclear fuel cycle facilities and the transfer of site liabilities to the taxpayer.
Canadian Nuclear Subsidies: 50 Years of Futile Spending.
David Martin for the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout. Historical review of Canadian nuclear program and the subsidies that made it possible.
Federal Subsidies to Nuclear Power: Reactor Design and the Fuel Cycle.
Pre-publication draft. Joseph Bowring, Energy Information Administration, March 1980. Legend has it political pressure ensured this draft never made it to actual publication; if you know the real story, please share it with us. Even in its draft form, this paper is a great source for information and data on the early stages of the commercial nuclear program in the United States.
Subsidy Reform - Moving Towards Sustainability
Wolfgang Irrek, Wuppertal Institute
for Climate, Environment, Energy. Includes discussion of subsidies to
nuclear liability in Europe. Posted with permission of the author.
Mighty Mice
Detailed review of nuclear economics and constraints by Amory Lovins. Among the many detailed points made, the article also mentions our work:
"For illustration, Figure 3 optionally adds back windpower’s PTC but not the pre-2005 subsidies received by central stations, especially nuclear power. Those nuclear subsidies are complex, diverse and disputed but the most authoritative independent US expert, Doug Koplow, estimates ~$0.0079-0.0422/kWh, increased by another ~$0.034-0.040/kWh in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for at least the next 6GWe ordered."