Re:It can make more sense to build new renewable capacity th...
by cma on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:49PM
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>Is that still true without incentives
Are you sure you are accounting for Nuclear's extreme incentives? Nuclear as an industry gets its liability capped to around $12.6 billion, whereas there are plausible trillion dollar accident scenarios. It is as if you got free insurance and only had to pay insurance on paying the deductible.
The law was passed in 1957 partly because we wanted to subsidize nuclear proliferation and used byproducts from plants for weapons.
Are you sure you are accounting for Nuclear's extreme incentives? Nuclear as an industry gets its liability capped to around $12.6 billion, whereas there are plausible trillion dollar accident scenarios. It is as if you got free insurance and only had to pay insurance on paying the deductible.
The law was passed in 1957 partly because we wanted to subsidize nuclear proliferation and used byproducts from plants for weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...