Thanks, this reminds me that I read this article half a year ago and forgot... my point is that it's not sufficient as the Fukushima Daiichi accident cost a lot more than $12.6 billion, let me just lazily link to my old comment on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014159
But what's the point though? Three Mile Island was fully paid by the insurance.
With regards to Fukushima the powerplant didn't kill anyone, the tsunami, on the other hand, did and of course, the public needs to pay for as it was force majure not the actual nuclear power plant that created the disaster.
And Tjernobyl was in a country which didn't have any private ownership so of course the public paid for it.
What other cases can you come up with where insurance didn't cover it?
It's pretty important to get things into proper perspectives here.
