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Both Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents will have trillion-dollar cleanups.

$46 billion is only 4.6% of each cleanup.

Can I send you the bills for those cleanups? If not, stop being a nuclear apologist.

Chernobyl used very old reactor technologies. Fukushima had backup diesel generators below ground level. Both modes of failure will likely never happen again and can be validated through regulation.

You can't even send the company a bill in the US, the nuclear liability cap puts operator liability an order of magnitude or more below what would be needed in a serious event with a bad wind.

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