re: #156 Thanos

I can show you an actual *annual* body count for every form of power we use, can you show me an actual annual body count for existing nuclear energy?

Directly not many, Fukushima lists 573 and Chernobly only around 50. Indirectly tens of thousands (the “liquidators” at Chernobyl, Uranium miners and people living downstream from tailings on the Navajo reservation, etc.)

My problem with nuclear energy is the false economy: insurance rates are indirectly subsidized by liability caps. ($500 million in the USA, $1.5 billion in Europe).

Chernobyl was estimated to have cost $20 billion and Fukushima around $80 billion. If nuclear plants had to insure themselves for those amounts, their rates would most likely make nuclear energy prohibitively expensive.

And as for the costs of disposal and safe storage, that bill is going to be paid by generations and generations to come.