German Utilities Want Public Foundation to Handle Decommissioning

摘要

As Germany prepares to phase out nuclear energy, major utilities want to hand over the decommissioning of their nuclear plants to a public foundation. But the government says the firms need to accept responsibility. German utilities are negotiating with the government to unburden themselves from having to dismantle the country's nuclear power plants, according to a report in news magazine Der Spiegel. The four major energy companies, E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Sweden's Vattenfall, are looking to hand over ownership and control of their nuclear power plants to a public foundation effectively a "bad bank" for energy.