Please comment on the economic thought of the
following statement, and state why. Then provide whether
you agree or disagree with one or both bulleted
statements:
Critics have charged that, in carrying out an economic analysis,
the commercial nuclear power industry does not consider the cost of
decommissioning, or “mothballing,” a nuclear power plant and that
the analysis is therefore optimistic. As an example, consider the
Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bellefont twin nuclear generating
facility under construction at Scottsboro, in northern...