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Unfair aid: The subsidies keeping Nuclear energy afloat (2005)

Auteur	WISE, Nirs, P. Ward
Datum	juni 2005
Classificatie	6.01.0.10/91 (KOSTEN)
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1. Introduction

Since first introduced, the nuclear industry has received huge amounts of financial 
support. It is difficult to quantify exactly how much it has received in subsidies 
in the past or continues to receive today. This problem is not confined to nuclear 
power: the entire energy sector is renowned for the lack of available data on this 
issue. In the EU there is no comprehensive official record of past or present energy 
subsidies due to the lack of a harmonised reporting mechanism. The only exception 
to this is the annual report of direct state aid for the coal industry (EEA, 2004). 
Worldwide, information can only be gathered in bits and pieces, just enough to 
gain a rough impression of trends. 

In recent years energy markets in many parts of the world have been opened 
to increasing levels of liberalisation and privatisation and this process of 
liberalisation will continue in the near future. Under the terms of the most 
recent electricity and gas directives to be implemented by all EU countries,
full liberalisation of the European energy market should be completed in
2007 (Froggatt, 2004). This will lead to changes in the financial relation
between governments and electricity producers.

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