With five reactors closed in the last three years, the US nuclear industry is in shutdown mode, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - and that means big spending on decommissioning. But now the nuclear regulator is set to exempt owners from safety and emergency costs at their closed plants - allowing them to walk away from the costs and liabilities, and palm them onto taxpayers.
US nuclear industry's plan thanks to NRC: let taxpayers carry the can for closed power plants Linda Pentz Gunter | 13th May 2016 News Nuclear Energy Waste Regulation USA Finance …