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2. Very true

Sun Jan 4, 2015, 04:24 PM

Jan 2015

I don't know what the process is in Europe where the countries listed are located, but in the US utilities are forced to to pay a nuclear waste disposal tax which embeds the cost of dealing with nuclear waste into the price of the electricity generated by nuclear plants.

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I found that at least a couple countries in the graph do include the of disposing of nuclear waste in their price:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-O-S/Sweden/

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/Finland/

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-O-S/Switzerland/

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