Has the world grown so dependent upon nuclear power energy that it ignores the price tag? Power reaped from nuclear energy by heating and pressuring water is known as nuclear power. Controversies surrounding nuclear power come in various forms, however, the financial aspect is grand. In their recent work, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit organization composed of numerous scientists, discovered actual costs of implementing nuclear power as an energy source. Within the article Is Nuclear Power Our Energy Future, Or in a Death Spiral?, author Dave Levitan paraphrases UCS's findings as, "the price tag for a new nuclear power plant jumped from between US$2 billion and US$4 billion in 2002 all the way [to] US$9 billion in 2008.
