Governments would have to foot the bill for nuclear shipping
- ‘Essentially, the government stands behind the operator with an open chequebook’
- No global liability framework in place, and getting one could take decades
- Finance and insurance give nuclear a chicken-and-egg problem
Governments will be on the hook for the potentially unlimited liability created by a nuclear incident at sea, Core Power’s annual nuclear conference was told. There are doubts they are keen to take such a burden on
