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by pydry 1023 days ago
If those voters were so very wrong on their risk assessment then we can presumably also get rid of the extremely low catastrophe liability cap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...

If it's extremely safe we can let private insurers decide whether to shoulder the financial burden of a Fukushima style event and taxpayers no longer have to be on the hook for those pesky $1 trillion clean up events.

I'm all in favor of eliminating the act and adopting a wait and see approach to "will sophisticated insurers have an appetite for this risk?" but for some reason a lot of pro nuclear activists who are adamant that it is 110% safe aren't so sure about slashing this subsidy.

Why do you think that is?

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What does US corporate welfare has to do with Italian public votes?
Every country that has a private sector building nuclear power has some kind of liability carve out.