France faces EUR 79bn charge for nuclear power

EU Business Tuesday 31st January, 2012

) - Dismantling France's nuclear reactors and storing their radioactive waste will eventually cost around 79 billion euros ($103.5 billion), the national audit office said on Tuesday. It put the cost of dismantling France's 58 electricity-generating reactors, run by the state firm EDF, at 18 billion euros. Storing their highly radioactive waste a...

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