Green Nuclear Insurance Woes
Apr. 25th, 2008 12:39 amThose pesky Greens at work in the Czech Republic. Paying what all the other industries have to pay? Shocking.
Power Plants Face Insurance Hike - Prague Post Online - 23 Apr 08
"In March, the government issued a statement instructing the Industry and Trade Ministry to work with the Environment Ministry to implement the increase by preparing a ratification of the protocol to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. 'We will cancel the limited liability of the operators of nuclear reactors for damage so that they pay market insurance, as other industrial sectors are required to do,' said Tomáš Bartovský, spokesman for the Industry and Trade Ministry, which conducted the analysis on which the government statement was based."
Power Plants Face Insurance Hike - Prague Post Online - 23 Apr 08
"In March, the government issued a statement instructing the Industry and Trade Ministry to work with the Environment Ministry to implement the increase by preparing a ratification of the protocol to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. 'We will cancel the limited liability of the operators of nuclear reactors for damage so that they pay market insurance, as other industrial sectors are required to do,' said Tomáš Bartovský, spokesman for the Industry and Trade Ministry, which conducted the analysis on which the government statement was based."