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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by fasterik on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:30PM (#36924238)
The worst case is worse, but nuclear disasters are so rare and reactors produce so much power that nuclear is safer than wind in terms of deaths per TWh.

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

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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by Gwypaas on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:07PM (#36924615)
Let's stop subsidizing their accident insurance then.

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

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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by vGPU on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:06PM (#36925750)
> The Act required companies to obtain the maximum possible insurance coverage against accidents, determined to be $60 million

It’s a necessity, and extremely logical and reasonable.

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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by cinntaile on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:34AM (#36929766)
The most recent "disaster" was Fukushima, the actual cost there is far far greater than $60 million.
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Re:The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On by vGPU on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:19PM (#36936094)
The point being that they aren’t able to get private insurance higher than that, so the government has to come up with a way to help.

They’re insured the exact same way the banks are.

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