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Date: 01/10/2014 16:37 clock
The energy company E.ON calls for the federal government 380 million euros in damages for the three-month moratorium on the nuclear reactor disaster at Fukushima. This would include lost profits due to the shutdown of nuclear power plants under Weser (Lower Saxony) and Isar 1 (Bavaria), said a company spokesman. The lawsuit was filed at the District Court of Hanover, where the nuclear power division of E.ON sitting.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and its then black-yellow coalition had initially imposed the moratorium in March 2011 for three months. Then the eight affected plants were even shut down forever.
Before Düsseldorf E.ON Group of Essen utility RWE had already filed an action for damages in the amount of 235 million euros. In this process, it comes to the nuclear power plant Biblis in Hesse.
Regardless, E.ON and RWE, but also filed a constitutional complaint against the permanent closure of the facilities. In these methods, it should then even go to damages in the tens of billions.
E.ON refuses also to take over the cost of housing those 26 Castor containers, which are not in Gorleben interim storage facility to be housed. “In a perfectly suitable Gorleben interim storage facility is already in place,” the spokesman said.
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