# New and improved nuclear plants may cost more than expected.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 5, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-nuclear-plants-may-cost-more-than-expected/498880 "2009-06-05T22:35:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-nuclear-plants-may-cost-more-than-expected/498880/201 "2009-06-12T09:27:00Z")

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> [@sleestak](#):
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> Well [lung cancer](http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Air_Pollution_Linked_to_Deaths_From_Lung_Cancer.asp) ain’t all that pretty either.

Lung cancer is too slow to maintain the horror. That’s why statistics about how many people coal kills over the years (and over years) pales in comparison to the perceptible cause-and-effect of radiation sickness.

Re: **gonzomax** ’s link,

What’s funny about spent fuel fires, is that we have all this spent fuel laying around in part due to irrational hysteria over reprocessing it.

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