Original sentence: New technology can affect the date of the peaks for fossil fuels and how much energy each unit of fossil fuel produces: the costs of drilling and mining may decrease; resources deeper in the ground may become recoverable; the percentage of fossil fuel recovered from a field may be significantly increased; exploration may become less expensive and more accurate; improved monitoring systems may reduce production costs and extend the life of marginal wells; storage and transportation losses and costs may be reduced; and power plants may become more efficient
Edited sentence: Advocates of nuclear power point out that it is a cost competitive way to produce energy versus fossil fuels, especially if you take into account fossil fuel externalities, the same way nuclear reactors have to pay for their pollution and plant decommissioning costs.Coal and hydropower has caused many more deaths per energy unit produced than nuclear.If energy becomes scarce, this could be important.New technology can affect the date of the peaks for fossil fuels and how much energy each unit of fossil fuel produces: exploration may become less expensive and more accurate;; the costs of drilling and mining may decrease; resources deeper in the ground may become recoverable; the percentage of fossil fuel recovered from a field may be significantly increased; improved monitoring systems may reduce production costs and extend the life of marginal wells; storage and transportation losses and costs may be reduced; and refining and power plants may become more efficient.Nuclear energy gives more energy per input energy than many other energy sources.Nuclear waste takes up little space compared to wastes from the chemical industry which remain toxic indefinitely.Using life cycle analysis, it takes 4-5 months of energy production from the nuclear plant to fully pay back the initial energy investment