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Turning The GOP Green: Your Thoughts

Dish readers discuss nuclear power as a way to get the Republican Party on board with climate change. Also, a response from Michael Shellenberger.

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Nov 05, 2021
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Shellenberger continues his response on the question of cost:

In 2015, two French economists, Michel Berthélemy and Lina Escobar Rangel, identified the causes of nuclear plant cost escalation in both the United States and France using comprehensive data sets and econometric methods to separate causation from correlation. They found that only by sticking …

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