U.K. Decommissioning More Expensive Than Expected

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File photo of the Sellafield nuclear plant.

London (UPI) Aug 11, 2005
Decommissioning Britain's aging nuclear pants will cost billions more dollars than originally expected, a government report said.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estimates that the cost of the decommissioning would run $101 billion up from $87 billion, the BBC reported Thursday.

The plan is open to comment until November and a final plan is scheduled to be approved in December, government officials said.

The higher estimate was calculated by the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Authority and British Nuclear Fuels.

"It's important to recognize that we're talking about a program that's running just over a century, so those changes in estimates don't seem very surprising," Anthony Cleaver said.

Clever added that the report was "first time anyone has had the opportunity to put together a coherent program for all 20 of the sites".

The decommissioning of the Sellafield and Dounreay sites was described as "our No. 1 decommissioning priority."

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