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by aagd 1704 days ago
A couple of years ago there was a study about what this kind of insurance would cost: about 72 billion Euro per year.

> The study proves for the first time the years of market distortion in favor of nuclear energy and at the expense of the competition, said Uwe Leprich from the Saarbrücken University of Technology and Economics. "The study also shows that if you look at the economy from a regulatory perspective, nuclear energy is not competitive."

https://www.manager-magazin.de/finanzen/versicherungen/a-761...

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Well, if that is true, why not deregulate? Let us see what happens.

I would just do one thing myself: I would make mandatory to label products with the pollution manufacturing process: this used coal, this used nuclear, this used blabla. This is the amount of waste produced to the environment. And let people choose, with the appropriate information.

In that setup, if nuclears are not worth, they would disappear by themselves.