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A critical question – who pays for long term nuclear waste storage?

What to do with nuclear waste? DW 28 June 3 “……..Who pays?  The forum Ecological-Social Market Economy has evaluated the Swiss study and, based on its findings, estimated the future costs for storing nuclear waste from Germany’s eight deactivated and nine active nuclear power plants. According to conservative calculations by the researchers, Germany can reckon with storage costs of about 18 billion euros in the future.

The German Atom Forum, comprised of all German nuclear power plant operators, intends to pay as little as possible for storage and rejected shouldering costs for the new site search. In their opinion´”there is no legal basis” for them to pay and all costs should be “financed by taxpayers.”

Environment Minister Peter Altmaier has a different view. He intends to have the nuclear plant operators take responsibility for the waste they generate.  http://www.dw.de/what-to-do-with-nuclear-waste/a-16755844

June 29, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, wastes