From The Times
January 28, 2008
Taxpayer liable for nuclear clean-up
Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor
Taxpayers are to be liable for clean-up bills running into many billions of pounds as ministers quietly underwrite the insurance costs of the nuclear industry.
Gordon Brown insisted recently that there would be no special subsidies to fund a new generation of power stations and that companies wishing to build them must bear the full costs of dealing with waste.
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