Environmental News Network - Recycling Nuclear Waste: A Win-Win or a Dangerous Gamble?

In the midst of the ever-increasing calls for an agreement between the Government and the owner companies to extend the useful life of nuclear power plants, the lack of concreteness of the moment about what the owners want and what the Ministry for the Ecological Transition would be willing to offer will be supplemented with ideas to maintain the activity of the plants beyond the expected closing date, including the possibility of turning the in…

The key to the noisy debate about the nuclear future in Spain is not ideology, but numbers: do the accounts come out so that it will continue to be profitable for the five plants in the country to operate beyond what is foreseen in the energy planning approved by the government and endorsed by Brussels? And to make those accounts, a determining factor is the billion dollar cost of radioactive waste management and the future dismantling of the pl…

Environmental News Network - Recycling Nuclear Waste: A Win-Win or a Dangerous Gamble?

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Electricity companies in Spain want guarantees of improving the fiscal framework before asking for a revision of the plan to close nuclear power plants

The government’s unnegotiable decision to close the nuclear park will have two unwelcome consequences: the rise in energy prices and a loss of Spain’s attractiveness as an investment destination for international industry. So believe the leaders of two of the most important energy companies in our country, Iberdrola and Endesa, at the time managers of the power stations. “Can we, as Europeans, be in a position to renounce these natural energy re…

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