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Germany: 9 billion euro revenue from tax on nuclear fuel

German MOF: Not Abolishing Plan To Impose Nuclear Fuel Rod Tax – WSJ.com BERLIN (Dow Jones), -By Andrea Thomas 5 July 2010, –-The German finance ministry Monday rejected a media report that it might scrap the proposed tax on nuclear fuel rods and raise money from an energy fund instead.”The finance ministry doesn’t disavow the nuclear fuel rods tax,” a finance ministry spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.

………….As part of its EUR80 billion austerity package, the German government has said it plans to impose a tax on fuel rods, with proceeds seen at some EUR9.2 billion over a four-year period.Germany is in the process of gradually phasing out all of its remaining 17 nuclear reactors by around 2022….

German MOF: Not Abolishing Plan To Impose Nuclear Fuel Rod Tax – WSJ.com

July 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium