You’re still comparing it to fossil fuel, and it seems to be a case of risks with different impacts and probabilities. The numbers for Chernobyl and Fukushima are debatable, the risk of entire areas becoming depopulated and uninhabitable is pretty much exclusive to nuclear power

And again: Show me the insurance company willing to insure the risk of failure and it might change my mind

Interesting. Could there be other reason for not insuring nuclear power plants than incalculable risk? Such as - it is calculable but the price is too high (for already pricy source of energy?) Are you sure non of them is insured?

No, I can’t know that, of course. I’ve seen it claimed numerous times, and have never seen it debunked, though

The potential cost– even for something as “mild” as Chernobyl or Fukushima – is simply ridiculous. E.g. what price do you put on an area becoming uninhabitable for a few hundred years?

I have no idea of course. What I know is that here in Czechia the coal power plants (besides other sources of pollution of course) caused damage to vast areas of land (acidic rains), to hundreds of thousands of people etc. What a is price of that? Don't know either.

True. Just to be clear: I think fossil fuels are a disaster, and at least as bad, and quite possibly worse, than nuclear power. I just don’t think nuclear is as clean and risk-free as its proponents claim.

Sure. It is just hard to find alternatives - at least over here, although I believe given the investments needed to built a nuclear power plant, it might be more efficient to invest the same resources into local grids and alternative sources of energy.

That’s where I think things connect: Like fossil fuels, nuclear power is only cheap because the real cost isn’t factored in. Companies should only build nuclear power plants if they can guarantee they’ll pay for the potential damages (or have an insurance that will)

Got it. And yes - total cost is important. It should be so for any kind of power plant. Yet in our case - it is actually not a "company" but the government who asks for a nuclear power plant - as it is seen as the only way to cover our future energy needs. So, who's gonna pay?