The problem is that it is horrifically expensive to build and when stuff go bad we get hundreds of billions in damages to manage.
Which today the public subsidizes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
Which today the public subsidizes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
If every nuclear reactor in the US simultaneously had an accident requiring the $70M paid out for Three-Mile Island, we'd be around 1.2% of the way to needing Treasury funds. Three-Mile Island's operator was responsible for cleaning it up, and they paid the entire $1B required to do so.
The latest figure for Fukushima from 2016 is looking at a $200B clean up cost.
Meaning each reactor in the US insured for ~1% of their total liability with the entire pool making up 5%.
so paying money for an ireversable increase in the background radiation level for the whole planet, and exclusion zones that will be poisinous for ever,and the literal mountains of mine waste and spent fuel, puts everything square?
right