re: #182 ralphieboy

A Chernobyl is highly unlikely, but if something only half as disastrous were to happen, it would exceed current liability caps at least ten times over.

These liability caps are in effect, an indirect subsidy that totally distors the “free” market. That is my main problem with nuclear energy.

Sort that out and then I am all in favor of letting it compete with other power sources, but it could well prove cheaper to hire anuclear physicist to run a treadmill in your backyard than to generate energy that has cover the insurance costs of a nuclear facility.

When you factor in the costs of construction, re-treatment, decommissioning and depolutting the site (techniques as yet unknown), the cost of the kilowatt-hour becomes nearly incalculable.