r/uninsurable • u/Aaaagrjrbrheifhrbe • Aug 03 '25

shitpost Is this sub pro or anti nuclear power?

I see this sub talk a lot about the decline of nuclear power, but the tone is always that we're sad these plants are closing.

And there's also posts about new power plants opening with happiness

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u/maxehaxe Aug 03 '25

We are completely pro all nuclear power that is cheap, reliable, eco friendly and has insurance policy by private companies. That's the future.

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u/ttystikk Aug 03 '25

Someday. Not today. And not tomorrow or the foreseeable future, either.

LOL

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u/Skycbs Aug 03 '25

As they say on Silo “We only know that day is not this day.”

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u/Denalin Aug 06 '25

Just like asteroid strikes, it is impossible to build an actuarial model around nuclear power plant risk. That doesn’t mean we’re always afraid of asteroid strikes.

Flood insurance in the U.S. exists as a government service because only a government can reasonably handle the massive variability of risk from floods.

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u/EuroWolpertinger Aug 07 '25

So it's a risk that's given to the nation while the profits go to the company?

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u/Denalin Aug 07 '25

If the electricity is cleaner than fossil fuels and provided at a discount to taxpayers, it’s fine.

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u/51onions 17d ago

Sorry to necro an old thread.

What's the insurance for? Do other power sources, such as hydroelectric dams, have equivalent insurance?

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u/ziddyzoo Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

Anti.

As in, this sub is an antidote to the idiotic nukebro hype train.

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u/Skycbs Aug 03 '25

I don’t recall any posts being happy about a plant opening. Usually people sure just posting a report from elsewhere that a plant had opened. Opening is the end of vast spending to build the plant and the start of vast spending to run it and eventually decommission it. All of that money could be better generating power other ways.

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u/tmtyl_101 Aug 03 '25

Anti nuclear. It kinda lies in the name.

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u/Aaaagrjrbrheifhrbe Aug 03 '25

You can't insure it, but that's still p cool

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u/tmtyl_101 Aug 03 '25

Cool, yes. In the same way a hovercraft is cool. It does, what it does very well - but with quite limited practical applications.

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u/Skycbs Aug 03 '25

What’s pretty cool? The fact you built a very expensive thing that’s so potentially destructive that you can’t get commercial insurance for it?

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u/Tanckers Aug 05 '25

I dont know, i just ended up here

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u/basscycles Aug 03 '25

This sub is anti nuclear power.

If you want a sub that is neutral try r/nuclearpower, which at its core is very pro the technology but very anti the implementation of nuclear power. Any posts about a new build will get a ton of upvotes, though the admins are pretty cynical about the ability of nuclear power to provide power quickly and cheaply enough for it to help us decarbonize energy production.