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> $800 billion

Even taking that figure completely at face value, that's... not a lot of money? Italy's GDP is 2.1T, if a Fukushima-like disaster happens once in 30 years (which it doesn't, but for the sake of argument let's say it does), that's an amortized cost of 1% of the GDP.

We're Italians, we'd waste that kind of money on some stupid shit anyway.

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You mean you waste it on corruption (and the Mafia)? My family is Italian, and I do love the country, and it could be a true financial powerhouse...but the corruption will literally kill the country one day, I have very little doubt Italy as the current entity will fail (honestly I am surprised that covid didn't bankrupt the country, so that was a positive).

Italy has been slowly going down for the last 30 years. Too many small businesses that are not competitive, providing lower salaries; populism rose. The State of Italy is spending ~30 billions each year for improving the insulation of old buildings, without lowering emissions significantly or having a real effect on the economy. With all the money that have already been spent just on this measure, Italy could have built so many nuclear reactors that it would have ensured zero carbon emission electricity for many years. That is just an example.

"5 months GDP is a reasonable cost" is not the argument in favor of nuclear power that you think it is.

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