Overt and hidden subsidies
When all the overt and hidden subsidies are taken into account, nuclear
power is much more expensive than any other source of power.
Five accounts of how costly it is are:
Mirage and oasis: energy choices in an age of global warming (PDF, 1.2 MB, New Economics Foundation, June 2005). According to this report, a kilowatt-hour of electricity from a nuclear generator will cost as much as 8.3 pence (16.3 US cents) once realistic construction and running costs are factored in, compared with about 3 pence (5.9 US cents) claimed by the nuclear industry—and that's without including the cost of managing pollution, insuring against catastrophic accidents, or protecting nuclear power plants and nuclear transports from attack by terrorists (see below).
Arjun Makhijani's article Nuclear isn't necessary in Nature Reports Climate Change, 2008-10-02. This article is based on Arjun Makhijani's book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: a Roadmap for US Energy Policy, IEER Press, ISBN 978-1-57143-173-8, 2007.
Helen Caldicott's book "Nuclear power is not the answer" (ISBN-13 978-1-59558-067-2, 2006).
Paul Brown's "Voodoo economics" (PDF, 1.4 MB).
Amory Lovins and Imran Sheikh on "The nuclear illusion" (PDF, 4.4 MB).
Energy Net on 09 Dec 08In a Dec. 2 document filed with the commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Massachusetts Attorney General has accused the NRC of violating the National Environmental Policy Act because it is trying to exempt the Pilgrim nuclear power station in Plymouth, Mass., from compliance with spent fuel pool requirements that might eventually be mandated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. On Oct. 30, the ASLB issued an initial decision to approve the relicensing application for Pilgrim. On Nov. 24 it also issued a "partial initial decision" approving an application for Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.