Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

The IRA does nothing to decriminalize nuclear. Instead, it adds nuclear to traditionally solar/wind subsidies. At best this will prevent some plants from shutting down—but that could be far better achieved by eliminating the solar/wind subsidies that drive nuclear closures. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 14, 2022

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

The key variable holding back nuclear is its near-criminalization by the government, which makes it nearly impossible to build new nuclear power plants. Since the advent of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission not *one new plant* has been approved from conception to completion. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 14, 2022

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In practice, almost all the IRA’s “clean energy” subsidies will still go to solar/wind, not nuclear. But by nominally including nuclear, the IRA got away scot-free with extending supposedly “temporary” subsidies *indefinitely*—until GHG emissions go down 75%, which means decades. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 14, 2022