German utilities should be allowed more time to pay a surcharge of some 7 billion euros ($7.9 billion) for the storage of nuclear waste from decommissioned plants, a member of the nuclear commission said on Tuesday. “Our proposal is that the utilities pay the surcharge when they start making money again,” Juergen Trittin, a co-head of the government-appointed commission, told the Frankfurter Rundschau a day before it publishes its recommendations.
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A meeting between a commission overseeing Germany’s nuclear exit and four major utilities ended without a deal on Tuesday due to a dispute about how much money the firms should put into a fund to cover the costs of waste storage, sources close to the talks said. The four major utilities want to transfer a maximum of 21 billion euros ($23.76 billion) to a state-fund while the government could ask the utilities to transfer as much as 24 billion euros. The sources told Reuters there was no majority among members of the commission to approve a cap of 21 billion euros. The commission is expected to publish on Wednesday its findings on how to allot the costs of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.
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A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility’s operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the station’s operator said on Tuesday.
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On the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear power plant in Bavaria has been the victim of a computer virus and shut down as a precaution. Malware hit the IT network that handles the fuel handling system at block B of the reactor in Gundremmingen, in the west of the region.
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