Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

We should have learned by now that as soon as things go south, be it a radioactive leak or worse, it won't be any company which will cover the costs related to solving the caused problem. It will be the taxpayer.

No, it will most likely be an insurance company.

I believe that the Price Anderson act sets aside $10 billion from the nuclear operators as a kind of insurance fund. After that the government would foot the bill. Fukushima's cleanup costs are over $100 billion.

At current rate of once in 1,000 year accidents (3 in 70 years) we will make all the land on rarth radioactive in 250,000 years ...

that's why we should build new reactor designs so that things don't go south

That assumes that we don't learn from accidents, which isn't really the case. Nobody builds extremely-unsafe RBMK reactors anymore, for example.

And the TMI accident didnt really make any land radioactive and Fukushima seems cleanup-able.