"so the only ones willing to eat the risk are states." Sure, if you can cook the accounting books to pay for a military nuclear industry, and also get a civil

"so the only ones willing to eat the risk are states." Sure, if you can cook the accounting books to pay for a military nuclear industry, and also get a civil sector that has no need to pay for capital, insurance and cleanup. I doubt it's a scalable model, and France had its own share of fuckups and close calls.