> I wonder if they ever factor in societial factors like these.
This is either egregious intellectual laziness or a passive-aggressive attack, neither of which I'd like to see on HN. In any case, the answer is that we do, and fission is still orders of magnitude safer than coal.
Do you though? The cost of potential accidents is not integrated in the price. When shit happens on a large scale the company doesn't have the funds to repair the local economic loss or century-scale maintenance effort.
This is either egregious intellectual laziness or a passive-aggressive attack, neither of which I'd like to see on HN. In any case, the answer is that we do, and fission is still orders of magnitude safer than coal.