New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power::In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain European countries.
If we required the recycling cost to be covered in the purchase of solar cells and wind mill blades would this still be true.
What’s cheaper to recycle, fiberglass windmills or radioactive waste?
I did not know the answer so I looked it up. Fiberglass is hard to recycle and it isn’t done much. A lot of nuclear “waste” is actually spent fuel which can be reprocessed and used again.
Obviously it would be better to improve recycling of fiberglass but as it stands today, nuclear waste might be recycled more often than fiberglass…
But disposal/storage of waste is baked in to the cost of nuclear. The economics of solar and wind don’t include those which is why we have windmill trash heaps
Decades of surcharges for nuclear decommissioning show that’s not true.
You are right, solar panels in which lead is used in manufacturing are definitively easiest and cheapest to recycle.