cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10870837
"President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday finalized approval of $1.1 billion to help keep California’s last operating nuclear power plant running. "
Because renewable energy sources are too expensive?
If you want to talk about subsidies, let’s talk about how fossil fuels and renewables get MORE subsidies than nuclear energy. https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf
Very similar for the EU (this subsidy is only used for decommissioning NPPs too).