Price-Anderson

Japanese Government: $26 billion bailout of TEPCO is a "major step forward"

The Japanese Parliament has just passed a new law that pumps the equivalent of $26 billion into a fund to pay for damage

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Nuclear subsidies from Price-Anderson: the population issue

Though there have been very few quantitative estimates of the subsidy value of the accident liability cap under the Price-Anderson Act, it is clear that this value has not remained static.  On

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Third Party Insurance: The Nuclear Sector's "Silent" Subsidy in Europe

There are two basic international legal frameworks contributing to an international regime on nuc ...

Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable Without Subsidies

Conspicuously absent from industry press releases and briefing memos touting nuclear power’s potential as a solution to global warming is any mention of the industry’s long and expensive history of

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Liability reform and oil spills: Drawing the wrong lessons from Price-Anderson

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill clearly demonstrated that really bad accidents -- the ones that the industry (and too often the government as well) say never happen -- do actually happen sometimes.

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