[org.whodat]

The Price-Anderson Act set up a pooling of liability across all operating reactors in the US. Right now, their pooled liability account is worth over $10 billion. Since the insurance requirements are based on a per-facility basis, and not on a size of the facility, the costs of the insurance are easily reduced by increasing the size of the reactor’s generation capacity.

You could buy it cheaper from AIG, but then they would never intend to pay off. So you are back to the funny money insurance and your tax dollars.

[NVDave]

There’s a designated insurer just for nuke operators, and here’s their website:

http://www.nuclearinsurance.com/

I read somewhere else that a typical annual premium for coverage is $400K/site. That’s just the primary insurance, then they’d need a secondary policy. Dunno how much that would be.