Decommissioning

UK / Watchdog Warns Of Risk To Taxpayer Over Rising Decommissioning Cost Estimates

By David Dalton
4 February 2022

Government recently requested further £5.6bn for liabilities fund
Watchdog Warns Of Risk To Taxpayer Over Rising Decommissioning Cost Estimates
The Dungeness nuclear power station in England, where two units were shut down permanently last year. Courtesy EDF Energy.
Cost estimates for decommissioning the UK’s aging nuclear reactor fleet have doubled in real terms since 2004 and if this upward trend is maintained there is a risk that the taxpayer will have to make further contributions, the UK’s National Audit Office has warned.

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