Nuclear Power in France. Image from World Nuclear Association
French Nuclear Disaster Scenario Was So Bad The Government Kept It Secret -- Business Insider
Catastrophic nuclear accidents, like Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima No. 1 in 2011, are, we’re incessantly told, very rare, and their probability of occurring infinitesimal.
But when they do occur, they get costly. So costly that the French government, when it came up with cost estimates for an accident in France, kept them secret.
But now the report was leaked to the French magazine, Le Journal de Dimanche. Turns out, the upper end of the cost spectrum of an accident at the nuclear power plant at Dampierre, in the Department of Loiret in north-central France, amounted to over three times the country’s GDP.
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My Comment: Talk about having a need to look for other alternatives .... but coal fired plants produce a lot of pollutants and "green tech" is incredibly expensive and not a guarantee in meeting the energy needs of a growing society.
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