Utilities drawing down funds to decommission nuclear plants

Vienna

CENTRAL banks may accomplish what a generation of anti-nuclear activists have failed to do: Force operators to finally decommission almost 150 plants now sitting in limbo across the globe.

The plants have been shut down, either because they're too expensive to run or because of concerns about their safety or age. They can't send electricity to the grid, and they'll need the special funds saved over decades for formal decommissioning and clean-up of radioactive waste.