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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by samatman on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:15AM (#30788339)
Are you alleging a conspiracy? Show me your numbers if you want me to take you seriously.
Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:36AM (#30789540)
I've not seen any numbers produced in the last decade that agree with your claim, so maybe you should provide your numbers.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pydry on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:19AM (#30788371)
https://www.i-sis.org.uk/Chernobyl_Deaths_Top_a_Million.php

Im not sure if conspiracy is the right word. The special interest groups bullshitting everyone are not necessarily coordinating. Is religion also a conspiracy?

Never mind.

I believe that I'd feel safer with nuclear if they paid for their own damn insurance and raised the liability cap to "unlimited" but apparently they dont feel its safe enough just yet to raise their financial exposure. What if fukushima happened again? Dealing with that was expensive!

Perhaps you could explain why they cant volunteer to shoulder their own risks if theyre so safe?

In SPITE of free insurance they still need lavish taxpayer subsidies to be financially viable while wind and solar dont.

Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by denton-scratch on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:22AM (#30789373)
> if they paid for their own damn insurance

...including a policy to pay the cost of decommissioning.

There isn't a production nuclear power plant in the world that has ever been fully decommissioned. The earliest production plants in the UK have been taken out of service, but decommissioning (so the land they were built on can be re-used) is expected to take the rest of this century.

Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by amluto on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:41AM (#30790519)
Then everything else would need a similar policy for fairness. Coal plants and their ash ponds are notorious.
Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by denton-scratch on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:44AM (#30791489)
I don't disagree. Corporations leaving environmental cleanup as a problem for government (i.e. taxpayers) and future generations is a severe form of externalising costs, which I think amounts to theft.