Belgium, for his roadside reactors Doel and Tihange, no new insurance. That would also apply to claims from Germany’s border regions.
No attractive risk for insurers: the Belgian NUCLEAR power plant Tihange photo: Eric Lalmand/dpa
TIHANGE taz | insurance are in a world of increasing risks is an important Foundation of the action – and they are all the more important, the greater the potential risk is. The best example is the liability insurance, both for private people as well as for the industry. The potentially the greatest Disaster that could cause a nuclear power plant. Who is liable then? Who pays?
The breakdown-rich reactors in Belgium, Doel, near Antwerp, and particularly interference-prone Tihange, near Liege, have currently a Problem: Starting in 2021, when a new regulation for insurance uses height, you need to insure substantially circumferential and find no insurance. The Flemish newspaper De Standaard reported now.
so Far, the statutory liability in Belgium take care of is expected to be 1.2 billion euros. Even if you would tenfold, that would be a dramatic under-insurance. A study by Greenpeace Energy came in 2017 to 430 billion in case of a GAU. Financial mathematicians have calculated how expensive a liability policy for a NUCLEAR power plant would be expected to be: EUR 72 billion a year. Would be to cover the with the twenty times the current price. Economically, nuclear energy is.
what is Unclear is whether Injured party would get in Belgium’s neighbouring countries, anything at all. Aachen’s city limits is removed from the reactors Tihange in the main wind direction West-southwest, just 57 kilometers of air line, to the Dutch town of Maastricht 44 kilometers. A total of about nine million people living in 75 km radius.
A spokesman for the Belgian insurance companies States: “The insurance today not covered, and they can not be internationally reinsured.” Nuclear power plants would be considered “not attractive risk -“: “something to hate the insurance companies.” Unattractive you are, because many insurers advertise thinking for some years on the offensive with Sustainability. Since scrap pile policies are an Image-GAU.
But Without adequate insurance, according to De Standaard, had to be representations of the power plant operator Engie Electrabel in the government, in order to apply for a legal guarantee. Would have to step in, so the state is. Only what? Belgium is, as of today, since 426 days without a government. The country is managed only business leader, without the possibility of legislation or budget decisions. On the Friday of the next Royal mediator has failed. Up to Belgium’s own world record of 541 days of government’s lack of (from 2010/11) there are only four months.
