http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/20/us-chamber-stalled-energy-projects-costing-state-billions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-chamber-stalled-energy-projects-costing-state-billions Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 23:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/20/us-chamber-stalled-energy-projects-costing-state-billions/#comment-109929 Business Blog » *Update* Does the U.S. Chamber need to do some homework? Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:46:52 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=38396#comment-109929 [...] have been convenient if the Chamber had bothered to mention that somewhere in their misleading press release, which opens with: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a first-of-its-kind economic study [...]

]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/20/us-chamber-stalled-energy-projects-costing-state-billions/#comment-109742 Rwolf Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:11:18 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=38396#comment-109742 Nuclear energy projects don’t save taxpayers money. In most cases nuclear reactors have to be subsidized by taxpayers. When nuclear reactors leak as shown in Japan, it can be expensive, with Japan’s current estimates at $200 Billion and more if one reactor at risk melts down. Too many nuclear reactors are too close to large U.S. populations for example the one 37 miles away from Manhattan near 21 million people. Should that reactor have a serious radiation leak or meltdown it winds might blow radiation fallout into Manhattan. Imagine the potential resulting health costs; what would contaminated Manhattan real estate be worth? How long would affected real estate and industry be contaminated, perhaps decades or centuries? The potential risks of developing more nuclear reactors in the U.S. does not pan out.

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