If you think about it... so much policy is driven from economics without a rational connection to the real world and how it works. I remember thinking as an elementary school student... "why does everybody think nuclear energy is a solution when there is no solution for the waste?" That part of the equation... a very expensive part ... just gets lopped off the cost justification or replaced with a ridiculous placeholder. LOL... well you can ignore it, that won't make it go away, it will just enable a half right policy with a disastrous result. I guess the premier B Schools must know something that the physicists don't OR they've been wrong for a very long time!
Quick factoid: There are 440 Nuke plants in the World (world-nuclear.org) It costs about 1 billion dollars to fully decommission the average plant (reuters.com) SO here's that nasty physics problem again. 440 X $1,000,000,000 = $440,000,000,000 and that does not cover the definitive sequestration of toxic fuels and radiated bits and pieces. Eventually that number has to be paid or we get to see 440 melt downs. If the decommissioning costs (complete decommissioning) were levied across consumers monthly bills I think most analysts would say make power another way because society cannot afford it! Anyhow we have a different policy don't we?
EROI is another one of those real world calculations that reminds us we do not live in a fairy-tale world. AND that, is a real problem for all those economic calculations that erase or greatly downplay the energy variables. Oopsie. Physics ultimately wins every time.
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