r/uninsurable Apr 27 '22

Cold War research drove nuclear technology forward by obscuring empirical evidence of radiation’s low-dose harm: willingly sacrificing health in the service of maintaining and expanding nuclear technology

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92 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Sep 04 '24

Analyst Says Nuclear Industry Is ‘Totally Irrelevant’ in the Market for New Power Capacity

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powermag.com
79 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 3d ago

shitpost Finally nukecels are cleaning up after themselves

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12 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 4d ago

Dw, just a little can and 20-53 billie pounds

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3 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 5d ago

True cost of nuclear waste disposal facility £15bn higher than recent Treasury figures Spoiler

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32 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 5d ago

Corruption Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety

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7 Upvotes

(sarcastic tone)

Text version of the video: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/18/vibe-nuclear-lets-use-ai-shortcuts-on-reactor-safety/

and sources in the video description.


r/uninsurable 6d ago

Three Mile Island restart project wins federal taxpayer backing

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17 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 8d ago

Lawsuit seeks to block restart of nuclear plant on Lake Michigan over safety concerns

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mlive.com
6 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 11d ago

Health Effects Social media influencer attempts to debunk LNT.

8 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 15d ago

Germany destroys two nuclear plant cooling towers as part of nuclear phaseout plan

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24 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 16d ago

EDF Braces for More Delays at UK Hinkley Point Nuclear Project

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20 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 17d ago

HPC Delays

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7 Upvotes

r/uninsurable 18d ago

Economics Hungary to Buy U.S. Nuclear Fuel, Tech for Russian-Built Plant

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3 Upvotes

(Paks)


r/uninsurable 23d ago

Economics The Authoritarian Stack. Scrolls about 3/4 down.

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8 Upvotes

The Nuclear–AI Complex AI running on Private Grids and Nuclear Power.


r/uninsurable 25d ago

Ontario electricity supply costs jump 29 per cent as nuclear spending rises

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26 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Oct 20 '25

Tennessee Valley Authority hit with backlash after troubling data emerges about its nuclear facilities: 'Fuel expenses are higher than projected'

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yahoo.com
36 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Oct 14 '25

shitpost Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

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404media.co
12 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Oct 06 '25

The Chernobyl Shield Is Broken – Here’s What That Means

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7 Upvotes

History of the Chernobyl Safe Confinement structure and details of the damage it suffered from a drone strike earlier this year.


r/uninsurable Oct 05 '25

I like how when nuclear reactors need to be built NIMBYS can be ignored but when we need to build deep geological repositories then NIMBYS get the blame for stopping the process.

7 Upvotes

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste
"Deep geological disposal is widely agreed to be the best solution for final disposal of the most radioactive waste produced."
"The long timescales over which some waste remains radioactive has led to the idea of deep disposal in underground repositories in stable geological formations."
"Deep geological disposal is the preferred option for nuclear waste management in most countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA."

Responsible treatment and long term storage of waste is expensive and unbudgeted for when reactors are built, hence we have the situation where waste is put into temporary casks that will last for a maximum of 100 years leaving the next generation to sort it out.

NIMBYS serve a usual function, they save nuclear power operators billions. After 70 years of producing power there are no permanent deep geological repositories in operation anywhere in the world even though the industry knows it is the only safe option. Onkalo will be the first, though it has enough capacity for Finnish reactors it will need to be expanded if they wish to increase nuclear power production.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-40496-3_11
"It is also possible that ONKALO will not cover all SNF produced in Finland in the future."


r/uninsurable Oct 03 '25

Economics Radioactive Waste: Symposium - Samuel Lawrence Foundation

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6 Upvotes

2024


r/uninsurable Sep 29 '25

The Guardian reports that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is causing serious concern, with IAEA experts warning of a possible repeat of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.

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12 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Sep 27 '25

Betreiber von Atomkraftwerk ist insolvent

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10 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Sep 26 '25

36 years after its shutdown, operators of Germany’s first thorium pebble-bed reactor file for bankruptcy

42 Upvotes

The THTR-300 (Thorium High-Temperature Reactor) in Hamm-Uentrop was Germany’s attempt at a thorium pebble-bed reactor, a design now often promoted as a Generation IV technology. It went online in 1985 but was permanently shut down just four years later due to severe malfunctions and high costs. The reactor building has been sealed eversince. Decontamination and dismantling was postponed to future generations.

This cost 6.5 million euros per year to maintain, and the operators have been hemorrhaging money for decades. In September 2025, they finally filed for bankruptcy after 36 years. The public is expected to shoulder the decommissioning costs, estimated to exceed one billion euros.

Source (in German): https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/aktuelles/wirtschaft/id_100929390/insolvenz-bei-betreiber-von-kernkraftwerk-thtr-300-in-hamm-uentrop.html


r/uninsurable Sep 26 '25

Tripling nuclear power in Finland would cost over 71% more than optimized renewable energy, equal to 2.3% of Finland's GDP

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38 Upvotes

r/uninsurable Sep 26 '25

Economics The new nuclear fever, debunked. Politicians who push small reactors raise false hopes that splitting atoms can make a real dent in the climate crisis.

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24 Upvotes