From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   Vaughn wrote:   
   > On 6/11/2012 12:34 PM, Bob F wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the US, they haven't removed a major subsidy on nuclear, the   
   >> Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Sometimes a subsidy is in the eye of the beholder.  Since the   
   > government has never had to pay any claims under Price Anderson, some   
   > would argue that it's not really a subsidy at all.   
   >   
      
   If there were an accident, the injured parties in the US would likely receive   
   very little in compensation. They cannot buy insurance for nuclear accidents.   
   Utilities have limited responsibility. So the system transfers the   
   responsibility for accidents to the victims. Not exactly fair, in my mind, and   
   without a doubt, a very clear subsidy to encourage a power source that has   
   demomstrated increasingly more damage worldwide in the last decades.   
      
   The total cost to the utility, country, and people of Japan won't be know for   
   decades or more. Reports of radioactive fish elsewhere suggest that the damage   
   my spread far beyond Japan.   
      
   They said it couldn't happen. It did.   
      
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