[juliangoldsmith]

That Wikipedia page explicitly states that the public has never subsidized damage from a nuclear accident. Nuclear energy companies are required to have $450M in private insurance for each reactor. For amounts over that, the Price-Anderson Act requires all nuclear energy companies to pay up to $121M per reactor, for a total of $12B in coverage. The public would potentially cover anything after that $12B, but that has never happened.

If every nuclear reactor in the US simultaneously had an accident requiring the $70M paid out for Three-Mile Island, we'd be around 1.2% of the way to needing Treasury funds. Three-Mile Island's operator was responsible for cleaning it up, and they paid the entire $1B required to do so.

[ViewTrick1002]

Which is true for the US.

The latest figure for Fukushima from 2016 is looking at a $200B clean up cost.

Meaning each reactor in the US insured for ~1% of their total liability with the entire pool making up 5%.

[metalman]

right

so paying money for an ireversable increase in the background radiation level for the whole planet, and exclusion zones that will be poisinous for ever,and the literal mountains of mine waste and spent fuel, puts everything square?

right