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Agreed. But I think the accident severity distribution for a nuclear power plan is dramatically more heavy tailed than that for other severity distribution for
by whearyou 5y ago
Agreed.
But I think the accident severity distribution for a nuclear power plan is dramatically more heavy tailed than that for other severity distribution for other power sources. That is, the impact of an individual accident for a nuclear plant can reasonably be orders of magnitude beyond the impact for a non nuclear plant.
I don’t think that’s usually taken into account and I do think that swings the cost benefit analysis into a net negative relative to other options.