2021-08-26 Europe’s $250+ Billion Nuclear Waste Bill

This article is from 2016. It says almost half of Europe’s NPPs are set to close “in the next decade” which would be by 2026, so essentially 5 years. The bill for nuclear waste disposal is more than half of the cost.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/04/europe-faces-253bn-nuclear-waste-bill

Yet the article says the NPPs may be replaced. Today, now that renewables plus storage are so low cost, it’s unlikely that new NPPs will be built.

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