The word 'nuclear' has a tendency to make people uneasy. We're still living with the remnants of the Fukushima disaster of 2011, and Germany has decided to cleanse itself of nuclear activity entirely. Thus it comes as no surprise that professional indemnity insurers are very cautious when it comes to underwriting this exposure. However, it isn't necessarily the fear of the danger that nuclear activity could pose that is behind their aversion. Much of it is led by uncertainty, and a lot of this scepticism is down to a lack of knowledge about what happens when a site is decommissioned. We are currently seeing the first generation of nuclear decommissioning occur. For many, this is unknown territory -especially so in the UK.
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