Different incentive structure in Chernobyl; still fucked up.

Given a large enough number of chances, people will fuck up. The fallout from nuclear fuckups is just too big to risk it.

And the number of opportunities to fuck up is mindblowingly high. A lot of nuclear accidents start with accidents on support systems that cascade into other systems up to the point the reactor can't be safely operated.

Will it be cost effective then? It's already pretty marginal.

What about the opportunity cost of having a planet to live on?

You can have that with renewables, at a much lower cost.

I thought that the costs come mostly from insurance? (Which the public is already on the hook for to some degree)

There are an lot of industry where they are not cost effective without heavy government involvement, and even then the public barely get to reap the rewards.

(Though I supposed if this happened in the USA it would be the death knell of the fossil fuel industry)

How expensive are highways?