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To: Ditto
"...82 of the 117 U.S. nuclear power plants, including seven in the process of shutting down, don’t have enough cash on hand to close safely, according to NRC records. And closing tends to cost more than operators expect. Based on NRC filings, the actual combined cost may be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion -- $43 billion more than the current balance of the trust funds."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-03/radioactive-and-short-on-cash

24 posted on 10/14/2015 1:50:23 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
Deceptive quote from a deceptive article, and I notice you didn't include this quote from the same article;

The plants are on track to meet their required funding levels, said Michael Dusaniwskyj, an NRC economist. It’s fine to have less money now because the funds will grow through investments, he said. Both Jennifer Young, a FirstEnergy spokeswoman, and Jerry Nappi, an Entergy spokesman, said there’s enough time for their decommissioning funds to increase to meet costs.
Moreover, you first post on this thread claimed that taxpayers were paying to decommission plants, yet you have presented zero evidence to back up that claim.
26 posted on 10/15/2015 5:46:28 AM PDT by Ditto
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