The true cost of disaster insurance makes nuclear power uncompetitive

[kristopher]

17. The poor nuclear cliche will do anything to avoid the issue of nuclear's high hidden costs

If there is a point to make, you don't need me to say anything - just make the point and stop trying to divert attention away from the fact that if we have a Chernobyl or Fukushima level event, the US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for at least several hundred mission dollars while we have to worry about this also:
Nuclear Reactor Pool Fire/Huge Risks in U.S. – 4.1 Million Displaced, 10,000 Square Miles Uninhabitable If Disaster Happens, According to Unpublicized NRC Study
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112764786

We could also have a meaningful discussion about the way the public is routinely misled by these profit seeking cretins regarding the actual risk of a serious event; you know, the way the nuclear industry has introduced a bias into their "probabilistic risk assessment" process through the use of proven unrealistic assumptions.

See post 26 in this discussion thread both for 1) a discussion of the lowball risk estimates being fed to the public by the nuclear industry and 2) a sample of why PamGreg was banned from EE.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112759049