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> 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 worl
by denton-scratch 5y ago
> 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.
- amluto 5y agoThen everything else would need a similar policy for fairness. Coal plants and their ash ponds are notorious.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI 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.