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Re:Nuclear Power in France by cogman10 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:23PM (#28842436)
> So high in fact, that there is no market price for it. As a result no nuclear power plant worldwide is insured

That's a very confident and incorrect statement.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...

As for accident vs costs of cleanup, like I said, new plants are designed not only to eliminate accidents from causing failures, but also such that if a failure happened, it would be completely contained.

Re:Nuclear Power in France by Pyramus on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:12PM (#28844503)
Seems like Wikipedia is incorrect as well?

"The main purpose of the [Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity] Act is to partially compensate the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents [...]."

"By 1966 it had become apparent that the industry would still be unable to obtain adequate private insurance, so the act was extended until 1976. [...] In 2005 it was extended again through 2025 via the Energy Policy Act of 2005."

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