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Environment & Energy

Finishline42

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1. RE: nuclear energy

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Nov 24, 2021, 03:32 AM

Nov 2021

remind me again - who is on the line for a major loss at a nuclear plant?

When a bean counter at a mid-level or lower utility cuts cost (qualified work force or scheduled maintenance) and there is just a Three Mile Island level 'accident', who picks up the clean up costs? Yep, we do. It's the epitome of privatize profits and socialize the liabilities.

It's the major negotiation point of building a new nuclear power plant - who picks up the catastrophic insurance.

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The United Nations 2021 Report on Life Cycle Analysis for Electricity Generation. [View all] NNadir Nov 2021 OP

RE: nuclear energy Finishline42 Nov 2021 #1

Remind me again, who is on the line for the major loss of a planet? NNadir Nov 2021 #2

To begin with, I am in favor of keeping existing nuclear plants in operation Finishline42 Nov 2021 #3

Again, I couldn't care less about absurd, obscenely stupid obsessions with Three Mile Island. NNadir Nov 2021 #4