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If you account for waste disposal it becomes prohibitively expensive. In 2016 the largest German utilities agreed to pay €23.6bln so that it would be the government's problem to deal with the waste:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-d...

Decommissioning all the (23) plants still active in 2016 will eventually cost another €24bln.

All in all €2bln per plant. And this is just the lower bound. It's hard to tell how much safely storing this waste will cost over the next several decades.

I remember this from my German lessons in school. Managing radioactive waste is simply too troublesome.



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