I de kommende år vil skatteyderne skulle investere ca. 500 milliarder euro i bagudrettet udvinding af reaktorer i Europa, der er i drift for nærværende. Selv om atomindustrien selv skal betale omkostningerne for den endelige lagring, i stedet for at skubbe det over på det offentlige, vil atomstrømmen blive minimum 20 % dyrere og dermed urentabel.
Over the coming years, the taxpayer will be required to invest some EUR 500 billion in the decommissioning of currently operational reactors in Europe; even if the atomic energy industry were to be obliged to bear the costs of storage itself instead of being able to shuffle them off onto the public purse, electricity generated by nuclear power would still be at least 20% more expensive and hence unprofitable.