Decomissioning and Early Retirement of Nuclear Reactors - TR2016c 4h40m15s24f
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 25/03/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Conventional nuclear reactors are being retired (and put into early retirement) faster than they can be replaced. This is resulting in higher energy costs, more pollution, and more greenhouse gasses being emitted.

Given the repeated stated objectives of "dealing with climate change" and the actual actions of shutting down the carbon-free electricity source which is nuclear power... how can this discrepancy be explained.

I'd like viewers to consider the California Energy Crisis of 2000, when blackouts rolled across the state of California.

It turned out, much of the crisis was manufactured by Enron traders. By cycling power on & off, they drove up energy prices.

Traders made millions of dollars. The economic impact of rolling blackouts on California was in the billions of dollars.

The corporations putting nuclear plants into early retirement can profit when energy prices rise... as they are also selling natural gas which replaces nuclear power.