Sentence examples for decommissioning funds from inspiring English sources

"Decommissioning funds are the 401 k)'s for America's nuclear power plants, and this new G.A.O.

The commission's "reviews were not always rigorous enough to ensure that decommissioning funds would be adequate," it said.

"A lot of decommissioning funds did take a hit at the nadir of the economic crisis," said Scott Burnell, a spokesman for the regulatory commission.

The power authority is supposed to pay for most of the costs of decommissioning the plants when they are deemed to have reached the end of their useful, or profitable, life, and so far, that decommissioning fund is worth around $630 million.

In the case of Vermont Yankee, the decommissioning fund balance is $582 million (ANS Nuclear Cafe).

An obvious solution would be to impose a new fee on solar panels that would go into a federal disposal and decommissioning fund.

Added Grace van Thillo, 68, of San Clemente, "We're depending on the [commission]." She suggested that the more than $1 billion collected for the plant be put toward a decommissioning fund, and to increase long-term power grid reliability.

The cost will be covered by the $900 million that Exelon accumulated in a decommissioning fund.

Any money left over from the $900 million in the plant's decommissioning fund goes back to electricity customers in the Chicago area.

Just as Norway has treated its oil money not as profit but as provision against a tougher future, so the governments in whose territories oil companies work should force them to pay into a decommissioning fund.

He got a 670-megawatt plant, $67 million worth of uranium fuel, a $471 million decommissioning fund and a five-year contract to sell power at 4 cents a kilowatt-hour.