On 30/10/2016 10:22, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

"Taxpayers will pick up the bill should the cost of storing radioactive
waste produced by Britain's newest nuclear power station soar, according
to confidential documents which the government has battled to keep
secret for more than a year"

"The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy - in its
previous incarnation as the Department for Energy and Climate Change -
resisted repeated requests under the Freedom of Information Act for the
release of the documents which were submitted to the European
commission"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...point-nuclear-
waste-storage-costs

And in related news:

"The French and Chinese companies that are to build the £18bn Hinkley
Point C nuclear power station will have to pay up to £7.2bn to dismantle
and clean it up"

"Documents published yesterday reveal for the first time how much the
developers, EDF and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), will have
to pay to decommission the plant, beginning in 2083"

"The new reactors in Somerset will be unique in British nuclear history,
as they are the first for which the operator will have to pay to make
good the site afterwards"

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...nkley-point-c-
developers-face-72bn-cleanup-bill-at-end-of-nuclear-plants-life

You can bet they'll wriggle out of that somehow.


I doubt it's even factored in to any of the business planning.

How much would you pay now for the benefit of £7.2B in 70 years time? :-)


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Cheers, Rob