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The mundane cost obstacle to nuclear power / Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, 14/03/2012http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/03/mundane-cost-obstacle-to-nuclear-power.htmlI've long believed that the main problems with expanding nuclear power related to health and safety concerns: for example, the small chance of a plant malfunctioning, along with issues related to waste disposal and possible links between nuclear power technology and weapons technology. But Lucas Davis argues persuasively in "Prospects for Nuclear Power" in the Winter 2012 issue of my own Journal of Economic Perspectives, which is freely available on-line courtesy of the American Economic Association, that I've been assuming too much...