Cons:
- High construction costs due to complex radiation containment systems & procedures
- High subsidies needed for construction & operation, as well as loan guarantees
- High unknown risks in an accident
- Risk of cancer
- Long construction time
- Target for terrorism
- Uranium sources are just as finite as other fuel sources , such as coal, natural gas, etc., & are also expensive to mine & transport & produces considerable environmental waste
- Waste lasts 200 -500 thousand years / must be sealed up & buried for many years to allow the radioactivity to die away
- High construction costs due to complex radiation containment systems & procedures
- High subsidies needed for construction & operation, as well as loan guarantees
- High unknown risks in an accident
- Risk of cancer
- Long construction time
- Target for terrorism
- Uranium sources are just as finite as other fuel sources , such as coal, natural gas, etc., & are also expensive to mine & transport & produces considerable environmental waste
- Waste lasts 200 -500 thousand years / must be sealed up & buried for many years to allow the radioactivity to die away