Hidden Costs of Nuclear

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1	The hidden costs of Nuclear Enegy
2	This is a Community built spreadsheet detailing some of the hidden costs of Nuclear energy paid by the tax payer (i.e. hidden subsidies). If you add an example of a cost you need to give a reference. Please be rigorous.
3	Total	580,185
4	Worldwide Indirect Subsidies to Nuclear
5		$USD Million	Paid by	Status	Reference	Comments
6	Chernobyl Clean Up	236000	Tax Payers	Paid	http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/japan-disaster-nuclear-opinions-roubini-economics.html
7	Fukushima Clean Up	257000	Tax Payers / Insurance	Estimated	http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/japan-disaster-nuclear-opinions-roubini-economics.html	private insurance covered a sum of a couple billion
8	Three Mile Island	324.675	Tax Payers / Insurance	Paid	http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf36.html http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/japan-disaster-nuclear-opinions-roubini-economics.html Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective By J. Samuel Walker: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tf0AfoynG-EC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=who+paid+for+three+mile+island+cleanup&source=bl&ots=OpsWD7LRsH&sig=K92yATik3lQKSSKXXQzT3lblpXk&hl=en#v=onepage&q=who%20paid%20for%20three%20mile%20island%20cleanup&f=false
9	Insurance Savings	20000	Tax Payers	Paid	http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf67.html http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn12_036/pn12_036.aspx	Hover to see more detailed comment
10	Insurance Savings in USA	3300	Tax Payers	Paid	http://mtu.academia.edu/JoshuaPearce/Papers/1568797/Diverting_Indirect_Subsidies_from_the_Nuclear_Industry_to_the_Photovoltaic_Industry_Energy_and_Economic_Returns
11	Federal Risk Insurance (US)	2000	Energy Policy Act 2005 Tax Payers		http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf41_US_nuclear_power_policy.html	Federal risk insurance of $2 billion to cover regulatory delays in full-power operation of the first six advanced new plants.
12	R&D - UK	60	Tax Payers	Paid	http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=cost+of+nuclear+research++taxpayer&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jonathonporritt.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fusers%2FBRIEFING%25201%2520subsidising_nuclear_26March%25202012.pdf&ei=gdo8UO7PJ9PY0QW8_YDIBg&usg=AFQjCNEbaE7vk8_s_bfYmoYHkaP8Gn_HzA	The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has spent £41Million on 20 research programmes to deal with nuclear power,
13	R&D - USA	61000	Tax Payers	Paid	http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/08/federal-investment-in-energy-rd-2008.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/before-solyndra-a-long-history-of-failed-government-energy-projects/2011/10/25/gIQA1xG0CN_story.html	Report by the US Department on Energy estimating the investment on Energy research 1961 - 2008. Nuclear has a 36% part of the share
14	Transfer of Construction Risk - UK		Tax Payers		http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/08/uk-nuclear-britain-edf-idUKBRE8470XC20120508
15	Decommissioning		Tax Payers / Operators
16	Gov. Assuming Nuclear Fuel liabilities (but selling the profitable part of the company to EDF)	500	Tax Payers	Paid	http://www.spinwatch.org/component/content/article/67-nuclear/5448-the-p100-billion-hidden-cost-of-nuclear-power	The taxpayer lost £660 million on the sale of the government’s 450 million shares in British Energy.
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18	Total	580,185
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