Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres The Source painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Washington-based consumer group, says regions with a heavy dependency on nuclear power often see higher electricity prices — precisely because nuclear plants are so expensive to build in the first place.According to Department of Energy statistics, electricity providers in Illinois, for instance, had revenues of 8.8 cents per kilowatt hour, while their counterparts in Kentucky, which is almost entirely dependent on coal-fueled power plants, averaged revenues of 5.3 cents per kilowatt hour."Under deregulation, we've scrapped this cost-based rate structure," says Slocum. "There's a lack of public accountability of energy companies."And that's not even allowing for the main issue environmentalists still have with nuclear power: disposing of the 45,000 tons of nuclear waste that have been generated in the last 30 years.