German power companies will be responsible for the full cost of dismantling Germany’s nuclear power plants, the chairman of a commission looking at how to safeguard funds to pay for the country’s nuclear withdrawal told a German newspaper on Monday. Germany’s “big four” utilities — E.ON RWE EnBW and Vattenfall VATN.UL — have earmarked nearly 40 billion euros (£30.91 billion) in provisions to pay for the dismantling and storage of waste from their nuclear plants, the last of which will be closed in 2022. The utilities had proposed to bring the money into a foundation, which would manage the dismantling, but Juergen Trittin told German Rheinische Post newspaper that this would not be the case.
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