News Digest Item
26 Apr 2017

“Costs of nuclear disaster exceed international limit of liability hundred- to thousandfold”

Greenpeace 鶹

Insurance protection for nuclear power plants in Germany’s neighbouring countries is insufficient for covering the costs of a major nuclear disaster, environmental organisation Greenpeace 鶹 has said in a press release. “Under prevailing legal norms, victims would have to shoulder the majority of costs ٳ𳾲,” Greenpeace 鶹 said. Costs for mitigating the consequences of a nuclear disaster would reach up to 430 billion euros, while the compulsory cover in most European countries was capped somewhere between 380 million and one billion euros, according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace 鶹.

Find the press release in German and the study by Green Budget Germany in German . 

Find background in the 鶹 dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.

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