Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come

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.

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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.

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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.

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