Areva estimates Fukushima costs

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Areva and EDF estimate that post-Fukushima measures will add between 2% and 5% to the cost of a kilowatt-hour from the existing French reactor fleet, Areva CEO Luc Oursel said at a meeting in Brussels November 7.There will be "no impact for new reactors" from post-Fukushima backfits, he said at a lunch debate organized by Confrontations Europe.Oursel called Germany's decision to phase out nuclear by 2022 "sudden and emotional" and said it had made German utilities "fragile." "Who will pay for the 'energy transition' in Germany?" Oursel asked, noting associated costs will rise from €14 billion in 2012 to €20 billion in 2013. The "new German energy model" amounts to importing 22% of the country's electricity and abandoning carbon emissions reduction goals, he said.