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> They are the consequence of nuclear accidents. These regulations are only cost effective if you have a value of human life at a billion dollars! Looks at th
by concordDance 4y ago
> They are the consequence of nuclear accidents.
These regulations are only cost effective if you have a value of human life at a billion dollars!
Looks at the actual accident rate and how bad they were in the 70s when nuclear power was reasonably priced. It is very much not worth increasing the price of nuclear by 5x, can just keep the regulations as they were and invest that money in healthcare to save 1000x as many people.
> It takes a very long time to recover the money (decades
In the overegulated world where nuclear power is 5x more expensive than it once was, yes. We aren't talking about that world though.
- trashtester 4y ago> These regulations are only cost effective if you have a value of human life at a billion dollars! If other energy souces were regulated to the same degree of safety, I would expect nuclear to become the cheapest one again. The main reason nuclear is expensive, is because people consider it to be worse if a person dies from radiation than from air polution, construction accidents, etc.