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This excerpt taken from the LNT 10-K filed Mar 4, 2005. (h) Nuclear Liability/Insurance -Liability for nuclear accidents is governed by the Price-Anderson Act of 1988 as amended, which sets a statutory limit of $10.8
billion for liability to the public for a single nuclear power plant incident and requires nuclear power plant operators to provide
financial protection for this amount. Financial protection for a nuclear incident is provided through a combination of liability
insurance ($300 million) and industry-wide retrospective payment plans ($10.5 billion). Under the industry-wide plan, the owners of
each operating licensed nuclear reactor in the U.S. are subject to an assessment in the event of a nuclear incident at any nuclear
plant in the U.S. Based on their ownership in DAEC and Kewaunee, IPL and WPL could be assessed a maximum of $70 million and $41
million per nuclear incident, respectively, if losses related to the incident exceeded $300 million.
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