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How is $13B at all a reasonable liability number for the whole industry? That's on the order of only the reactor cost itself. The reactor owner may even get c
by cma 4y ago
How is $13B at all a reasonable liability number for the whole industry?
That's on the order of only the reactor cost itself. The reactor owner may even get compensated instead of the population since some have done leaseback schemes with the operator.
- credit_guy 4y agoYou got it wrong. It’s $13B that the whole industry will pay for a single reactor accident. Every nuclear power plant operator will have to pay $131M per reactor if there is one accident. Each reactor also has a mandatory insurance of $450M. This is to cover liability only. Separate from that is a mandatory insurance imposed by the NRC of $1.06B per site to cover cleanup costs [1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/nuclear-insurance.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...