Sticker Shock: The Soaring Costs
Of Germany’s Nuclear Shutdown

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2011 decision to rapidly phase out the country’s 17 nuclear power reactors has left the government and utilities with a massive problem: How to clean up and store large amounts of nuclear waste and other radioactive material.

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/soaring_cost_german_nuclear_shutdown/3019/