“Of course in the end, Ohio’s electric energy consumers will pay higher rates as other energy prices rise or to cover the costs of decommissioning the nuke plants. Pick your poison.”
US plants have set aside in trust funds almost $60 billion to be used for decommissioning costs.
Most of those decommissioning funds haven’t yet matured to the point that they are available cover the signficant costs to make a nuke go away (and leave the spent fuel on the site in onsite “interim” dry storage). Plants get shutdown, all the jobs dry up, and the plant sits there for many years awaiting a full-blown decommissioning.
Look up the San Onofre costs, neighborhood of $4.4 to $5 billion. Counting some other costs, approx $10.4 billion to of related costs be passed to California customers (aka suckas). But that got what they wanted, shutdown of that terrible nuke that generated zero greenhouse gas and employed more than 2000 people in good paying jobs.
Let’s give Harry Reid another black eye, have Trump get all the spent fuel to Yucca Mountain for permanent disposal. Yucca was another unreported unconstitutional instance where oobomma just ignored a duly passed law for the benefit of dingy harry.
And keep me in the job working for the company with the $4 billion dollar contract to make San Onofre disappear while enjoying a Pacific Ocean view.