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Old 10-02-2017, 11:06 AM   #364 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JockoT View Post
Modern reactors will still cost Billions to decommission, which has to be added into the equation. And we all know the consequences if things go wrong,
The financial consequences are pretty similar to... one large hurricane.
But a lot rarer.

Japan nearly doubles Fukushima disaster-related cost to $188 billion
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKBN13Y047

"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates [Hurricane Katrina to have] cost about $160 billion in today’s dollars and resulted in 1,833 deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...mes-close.html

Yes, there are other, scarier consequences from nuclear disasters, but... We cheerfully accept disasters on that financial scale all the time and rebuild the same buildings in the same places almost every time. There's nothing magically dangerous about nuclear disasters, and we do everyone a disservice by not pursuing it more.
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