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Yes - cost v benefit - ha! I don't see nuclear proponents comparing potential cost (say $10T) against benefit (power produced during plant's lifetime - optimis

Yes - cost v benefit - ha! I don't see nuclear proponents comparing potential cost (say $10T) against benefit (power produced during plant's lifetime - optimistically $10B (over 30 years). That's 1000:1 against. By wikipedia, there are about 170 nuclear power plants and have been 6 accidents costing over $1B - approximately 1 in 30 plants have had very expensive accidents. Those odds don't make sense for any country. Though they might make sense for an investor, knowing that they won't be required to pay those big costs - they might win and (in the event of a disaster) they only loose their investment. Perhaps if they have to guarantee the $10T potential costs, they'd look realistically at the "investment".

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
> By wikipedia... This is exactly what I'm talking about – provide the bloody link so we can actually check your claims. Provide a link! Don't just tell us, allow us to verify! Edit: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster "Initial estimates of costs to Japanese taxpayers were in excess of 12 trillion yen ($100 billion).[299] In December 2016 the government estimated decontamination, compensation, decommissioning, and radioactive waste storage costs at 21.5 trillion yen ($187 billion)" I am not against nuclear power, but I am deeply worried by people like you who clearly only want to see the upside - and it is that which makes me nervous of nuclear power not the technology itself but the blindness of people around it."Costing over $1 billion" is just plain misleading.
- drpixie 3y ago
  For the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents#List_of_nuclear_plant_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations And "I do not think that [comment] means what you think it means." You seem to think that I see an upside to nuclear power. Read the comment.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago

> By wikipedia... This is exactly what I'm talking about – provide the bloody link so we can actually check your claims. Provide a link! Don't just tell us, allow us to verify! Edit: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster "Initial estimates of costs to Japanese taxpayers were in excess of 12 trillion yen ($100 billion).[299] In December 2016 the government estimated decontamination, compensation, decommissioning, and radioactive waste storage costs at 21.5 trillion yen ($187 billion)" I am not against nuclear power, but I am deeply worried by people like you who clearly only want to see the upside - and it is that which makes me nervous of nuclear power not the technology itself but the blindness of people around it."Costing over $1 billion" is just plain misleading.

drpixie 3y ago
For the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents#List_of_nuclear_plant_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations And "I do not think that [comment] means what you think it means." You seem to think that I see an upside to nuclear power. Read the comment.